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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-09-18 07:35 pm

I'd have those that made the quarreling the only ones to fight

My poem "Νυχαυγής" has been accepted by Not One of Us. The title means night-shining; it is an epithet of Melinoe, the daughter of Persephone and Hades (and Zeus) invoked in magic and the Orphic mysteries. Autumn and astronomy got in there, too.

Aside from the part where I had to wait more than an hour at the clinic because they were so slammed, my doctor's appointment this afternoon went well. It gave me information I could not have obtained on my own and it was almost nostalgically strange to pass through the river-adjacent regions of Cambridge where I spent so many afternoons exploring before the bar of this plague fell across everything this year looked like it would be. I came home and autoclaved myself.

L'shanah tovah! What a strange year to be turning. Apples and honey and distance, but as many of us as are here, let us keep on being so. A sweet year, a safe and a healthy one. In the book we write with our lives, a year of justice.

[edit 2020-09-18 19:54] Losing Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not what I had in mind. Her memory for a blessing and a rage.
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[personal profile] selkie 2020-09-19 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Tonight we are devastated. Tomorrow we will drink the hot beverages that connect us to wakefulness, reconcile the various deficits in our cognition and mobility, and BRING THEM DOWN AND EAT THEM ALL ONE BY ONE.
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[personal profile] kore 2020-09-19 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I was making a big fancy-type dinner and I will carry on making a big fancy-type dinner because the evil may be flourishing but we still need to eat, so we can rise up and crunch on their bones and suck out the marrow.