Freshen the blooms at your sea-rusted altar
My poem "The House Snakes" is now online at Uncanny Magazine. I had been trying to write a poem about Thera, but a different arena of the Aegean Bronze Age insisted. The results owe something to Mary Renault's The King Must Die (1958), like a difference of opinion. As a child, I always used to visit the chryselephantine snake goddess at the MFA regardless of her authenticity. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
minoanmiss has returned the favor with beautiful art.
The afternoon's mail has brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #69, containing my poem "Your Starving Days." This is the one I wrote in half an hour for the Strange Horizons Infernal Salon, prompted by the card from Negocios Infernales that reads A seed spends most of its life asleep and the memory ofasakiyume's tooth corn. Its title comes from George Mackay Brown. The rest of the issue is stocked with writers like Anne Karppinen, Marissa Lingen, Mike Allen, Alexandra Seidel and more, all on the relatable theme of not quite human. Check it out.
I am not happy about the accelerating omicron surge and all it entails, butspatch has fixed our bathroom sink.
minoanmiss has returned the favor with beautiful art.The afternoon's mail has brought my contributor's copy of Not One of Us #69, containing my poem "Your Starving Days." This is the one I wrote in half an hour for the Strange Horizons Infernal Salon, prompted by the card from Negocios Infernales that reads A seed spends most of its life asleep and the memory of
asakiyume's tooth corn. Its title comes from George Mackay Brown. The rest of the issue is stocked with writers like Anne Karppinen, Marissa Lingen, Mike Allen, Alexandra Seidel and more, all on the relatable theme of not quite human. Check it out.I am not happy about the accelerating omicron surge and all it entails, but
spatch has fixed our bathroom sink.
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
A sink that drains is so refreshing. It had been a locus of horror for weeks.
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I am very pleased you're having a 2021 full of PEOPLE SEEING YOUR STUFF.
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I wouldn't be surprised!
I am very pleased you're having a 2021 full of PEOPLE SEEING YOUR STUFF.
2022, please God! Let us not re-run this past year. But thank you. I hope so. Especially some stuff.
*hugs*
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2022!
Gaaaaaaah!
Bring me two proper cold-water lobsters and a fistful of mussels and the head of Jared Kushner onna railroad spike! I need a brain tonic!
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And a goddamn sea urchin!
*hugs*
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*hugs*
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*giggles helpleslly*
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actual LOL
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I'd be honored!
*hugs*
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hugs you back delightedly
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Thank you!
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Ah, that's gorgeous.
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Thank you.
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I mean, as if I know the Mediterranean as anything but a literary construct and the bottle of oil on my kitchen counter, next to the coffee grinder and the saltcellar.
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I still appreciate it!
(I have been to the Mediterranean, but not Crete. My mother was there in 1968. I wrote a poem about it. It was my first publication online, actually.)
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Thank you!
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Thank you on the magazine's behalf!
minoanmiss's art and your poem are a good pair. And I am very fond of your tooth corn poem.
Thank you! Please convey my gratitude to the tooth corn.