And you can't remember where your heart once lay

[sovay]

My poem "A Correct Interpretation" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It is the poem I wrote for the yahrzeit of the molasses flood, incorporating other Boston disasters and the way that time has gone strange since the spring of 2020. The title comes from Nigel Kneale's The Stone Tape (1972), defining a ghost: "Let's say it's a mass of data waiting for a correct interpretation."

The rest of my day was lost to my lungs. thisbluespirit linked me a treasure trove of British TV plays which is waiting for me like an event horizon; it has already furnished several items about which I have been curious for decades and one which I did not expect ever to see. It would be nice to be able to do anything with my brain at all.

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[poliphilo]

I just watched The Mayfly and the Frog- a play I saw when it was first broadcast in 1966- and I was 15. It's a chamber piece with John Gielgud and Felicity Kendall- light, bittersweet, utterly charming.

[sovay]

I just watched The Mayfly and the Frog- a play I saw when it was first broadcast in 1966- and I was 15.

Oh, that's wonderful! I will watch it.