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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2008-11-16 02:56 am

Who can turn back skies and begin again?

My poem "Migration" has been accepted by Lone Star Stories. It was the next-to-last poem to be written in New Haven, an experiment which I am still fond of. I suppose it's only suitable it should find a home after I've come here.

Rush tickets and the creek don't rise, in a little over twelve hours [livejournal.com profile] shmeislin and other miscreants and I will be at the Boston Lyric Opera for their matinée of Les contes d'Hoffmann, one of my favorite operas I have never (except as translated by Powell and Pressburger) seen. [livejournal.com profile] shmeislin is in fact the person responsible for introducing me to it, about six months after I'd discovered the historical E.T.A. Hoffmann. All my favorite authors should be so lucky as to have weird operas written about them.

Coconuts: the geodes of cuisine. I am sure there are more gracious ways of eating one than with a chisel and a screwdriver, but are they anywhere near as fun?

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2008-11-16 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

I hope the creeks don't rise, and that you've indeed got to the opera. And that you've enjoyed it very much.

Coconuts: the geodes of cuisine.

I like this line. And I reckon you're right. Is it a cold chisel you use?