Now all the gods are gone

Nonetheless, the mail this afternoon brought my contributor's copy of (Going Going) GONE, the latest not-Not One of Us publication in which my poems "The Golem in Flight" and "The Road to Volodny (Partisan Song)" appear alongside seajules' "Kumiho," Patricia Russo's "Claude's Ghost Story," Steven J. Dines' "In the Cage with Ghosts," and other disappearances. Check it out. It's full of fading. sen_no_ongaku meanwhile has sent me three CDs of his music, including a choral setting of common e-mail spam: this is so awesome, I may have difficulty describing it. And Viking Zen just e-mailed me Charles Simic's "Eyes Fastened with Pins," which I love; it reminds me of Namtar. ana bīti ša ēribušu lā asû, ana hārrani ša alaktaša lā tayyarat . . . None of you people vanish any time soon, okay?