The light will bring you home

[sovay]

It's a small thing, but it has been ages since I was able to make myself dinner that was not a holiday meal or a sandwich and tonight I cooked some canned mackerel with shallots and tarragon and black pepper and ate it over spaghetti, with appropriate libations to the cats, of course. I sat on the couch with Hestia curled up in a little black seal-heap beside me and watched Kristoffer Nyholm's The Vanishing (2018), a harsh and atmospheric maritime noir drawn loosely from the famous disappearance of the three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900, here transposed to the 1930's and given the starting kick of a wreck with a dangerous secret. It was full of gulls and salt and the sinewy coiling of waves and winds about its rock-chip island and should have been released under its original title of Keepers, which contains among its double meanings the implication of finders. It was the closest I could get to a goddamn sea urchin, selkie. My niece has been fully vaccinated.

Comments

[selkie]

I am very relieved for your niece and I support the victory of prosaic dinner. Shoulda been sea urchins all around, but mackerel is very nice with an allium.

[sovay]

I am very relieved for your niece and I support the victory of prosaic dinner.

Thank you. I want my niece to be as safe as possible and I want to eat more fish.

Shoulda been sea urchins all around, but mackerel is very nice with an allium.

It was! We should add regular sea urchin to our list of necessities. Red's Best at the Boston Public Market used to serve them straight off ice onto a plate, but I do not know if they still do.