Remember that children's picture book with the sea-ghosts I was mentioning a few weeks ago? I found it. It's Birdy and the Ghosties (1989); I recognized the cover illustration immediately. What I didn't remember was its author, Jill Paton Walsh. Who is also responsible for The Green Book (1981), which
rushthatspeaks and I both read in elementary school, possibly under its reissue title of Shine, and A Parcel of Patterns (1984), which traumatized us a few years later. Who knew? At this point, I'm just waiting to see what else turns up out of her bibliography—oh, wait, Fireweed's (1970) hers, too. Yes, I have been recommended Knowledge of Angels (1994). What I can't figure out is how she seems to have wound up best known for her Sayers fic.
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- 1: Am I one of those human beings?
- 2: Just took time to say, I'll drop you a line
- 3: Re-reading our texts from the strawberry days
- 4: I'm yours in the day and the dead of night
- 5: And four hours north of Portland, the radio flips on
- 6: You are just the fingertips of something
- 7: I yield to her cry, losing my own names within me
- 8: Shaking off the echoes of yesterday
- 9: Everything I love is on the table, everything I love is out to sea
- 10: He tried to run away, well, she hit him with a hammer
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