As the wheel spins and turns

[sovay]

I cannot count this as a contributor's copy, but selidor has sent me the very first image of Vanth, taken from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. Yes, I'm going to put it up on my wall. What else does one do with a sky of chthonic figures? In both senses, awesome.

Not so awesome is the smell of burning that just came in sharply through the windows and the flakes of ash falling onto our yard. I can see white and brown smoke rising when I look out the front door, a helicopter circling; I can't tell the distance. I hope it is not someone's house. The air is turning peat-blue. The first thing I think when cinders start drifting down is Pompeii.

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[sovay]

Which we can get, too, if we break the Winsor Dam at the Quabbin.

"The Winsor Dam and the Goodnough Dike impound the waters of the Swift River and the Ware River Diversion forming the Quabbin Reservoir, the largest water body in Massachusetts."

It does make it sound rather as though the rivers have been arrested . . .

(Also, what Murphy-baiter names a dam "Goodnough"?)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Also, what Murphy-baiter names a dam "Goodnough"

--good thing I wasn't drinking tea just then!

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

My friend PT wrote a cycle of poems about Quabbin.

Nine

[sovay]

My friend PT wrote a cycle of poems about Quabbin.

Are they online?