And should you glimpse my wandering form out on the borderline

[sovay]

Happy birthday, ungodchild!

My poem "Migration" is now online at Lone Star Stories. It was written in 2006 as an exercise in mainstream poetry, which failed, but I'm not complaining about the results.

Two nights ago was a DVD sale at Barnes & Noble. Guess who now owns Criterion's 1938 Pygmalion? I should probably write something more eloquent about this film than sorry, Rex Harrison.

Today was my grandfather's birthday observed; my aunt Naomi is in from San Francisco, and my brother and his fiancée crashed earlier this evening. To anyone who has ever wondered if it's possible to make a lemon meringue shortcake, the answer is yes, but it has an incredibly short lifespan.

This cold should buzz off, please. I have things I need to do.

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday to the ungodchild!

Congratulations on the online publication, and the new DVD.

Lemon meringue shortcake sounds interesting--I'm trying to envision it, and failing slightly, which in the morning will no doubt seem ridiculous.

I hope the cold takes your advice and leaves soon.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I like your lines on the halt of Canada geese (sentinel and ten pilgrims), and also this one:

The eastern moon hangs higher than the sun.
The roads thicken homeward, clotting

Especially that second line; I loved that.... keep turning it over in my head.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

They changed the end of the 1938 Pygmalion from the stage version, and not to its advantage. Other than that, I liked it a lot.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Leslie Howard, right? I was thinking about your review of Pimpernel Smith the other day; when I first saw it I was maybe seventeen, and dismissed it out of hand because I didn't like (Raymond Massey?)'s version of Chauvelin. To me, you see, the formative Chauvelin was Ian McKellen...though I also liked that weirdly butch dude they got for the more recent A&E adaptations. But all of this has convinced me the perfect Scarlet Pimpernel has yet to be made, and possibly would have to be cast piece-meal using cross-time image-capture technology that doesn't as yet exist, except for Pepsi commercials.

[gwynnega]

Congrats on the poem. And yay Pygmalion!

[seajules]

I love that poem. Though the images are different in specifics, the rhythm reminds me of playing among the wharfs in San Francisco as a child, and on the beach used for PT while my mother shopped in the commissary.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. Especially this morning when I needed something (do I always or do you just post at the right time?).

I've experienced what you've written here so many times, and I've never captured it like this (I don't know that I've ever written it at all, just watched). So, I'm very pleased to now have a poem to say this is the world I've just been through. I love so much in your images, the ferry curling back the harbor, parchment haze, the way I see the landscape receding and in that feeling the movement away, the sea breathing, cordgrass, tundra, and tiger stripes, craned with industry ... haha, I always do this ... I think to pull one or two images/word choices I love, and I write the whole poem.

Just thank you. So good to read this before I start my own writing today.