By night they come and reinstall the tattered weave of all our language

[sovay]

This evening's mail brought my contributor's copy of The 2019 Rhysling Anthology, containing my poem "Acceptable Documentation." Regardless of outcome, I am happy to be considered alongside Robert Beveridge, Nitoo Das, Amal El-Mohtar, August Huerta, Mary Soon Lee, Rose Lemberg, Bruce McAllister, Brandon O'Brien, Jessy Randall, Alexandra Seidel, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Gretchen Tessmer, Sarah Tolmie, and Fran Wilde, to name some favorites. It's just a terrific collection.

I also got a card in the mail from selkie with some things I'd left at her house in May. I really enjoy cards and letters. I need to be better at answering them. (Just so it's understood, this is less a factor of Tiny Wittgenstein than the fact that I type several orders of magnitude more rapidly and easily than I write by hand and that's just been true since I was eight.)

As a reward for the end of this week, I had intended to have a bagel for dinner from Hooked, but they had run out of bagels by the time I got there. It's all right! Because they are currently offering lobster rolls, they made me a sandwich with lox and caper-parsley cream cheese (and accidentally tomatoes, but I ate them separately) on a toasted roll and it was delicious. So, technically no bagel, but still smoked salmon and very satisfying. I am seriously considering their Oysterfest on Sunday.

I had to return to work after I got home, but the sky outside my window displayed a very nice bi flag sunset, which I consider seasonally appropriate.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Yay Rhysling Anthology and lox & cream cheese roll!

[sovay]

Yay Rhysling Anthology and lox & cream cheese roll!

Thank you!

[asakiyume]

That does sound like a delicious substitute sandwich--and that's a great list of co-nominees in the Rhysling Anthology. I love "Acceptable Documentation" very much.

[sovay]

That does sound like a delicious substitute sandwich--and that's a great list of co-nominees in the Rhysling Anthology. I love "Acceptable Documentation" very much.

Thank you! (I'm glad.)

[kore]

My parents gave in and got me my own portable typewriter when I was six or seven because I kept trying to use my dad's giant IBM Selectric II, beause handwriting is so slow. (Four or five years later I got my own giant IBM Selectric II. I wore out two of them. I still miss them.)

[sovay]

(Four or five years later I got my own giant IBM Selectric II. I wore out two of them. I still miss them.)

I used the one that lived in my grandfather's office, on which I think my mother had typed her dissertation. I am no longer sure it would work if fired up, but I still own it, because it was a dreadnought and a treasure.