And thank the gods I have five coins in my pocket

[sovay]

To make up for the music I only dreamed, the mail this afternooon brought me several fine things, including a paperback of Michael Cisco's The Tyrant and a package of Kaori Yuki's Godchild—courtesy of teenybuffalo, who enclosed postcards of herons and heat lightning—and my contributor's copy of Jabberwocky #4. erzebet co-edited this issue and it is lovely, lovely. Check out the table of contents; I especially recommend Nicole Kornher-Stace's "Notes Toward a Comparative Mythology," Alex Dally MacFarlane's "Always Two," Jeannelle Ferreira's "Anniversaries," Becca de la Rosa's "The History of Iolo and Nye," Mike Allen's "The Parcae," and Erik Amundsen's "Barge on the Styx," but that's a fraction of the cornucopia. There is also my poem "Berakhah," written for and dedicated to my ungodchild Peter Burson. I still have a cold, but today is automatically better.

Comments

[time-shark.livejournal.com]

I'd been wonderin' when those were gonna turn up! (Goes to check mailbox...)

ETA: I haZ!

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

Mr. Peter is worthy of poetry!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the last issue of Jabberwocky that I bought. When I can next buy things, this is on my list. (But first, the back issue of Sirenia with "The Salt House" in it.)

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I'm glad it got there safe and sound! "Godchild" is remarkable for many things. I chiefly like it for its sense of English-nineteenth-century penny-dreadfuls as translated into Japanese modern-day sensibilities and then back into English, and for its bishonen evil doctor named Dr. Jizabel Disraeli. I'm interested to see how it will seem to you.

[alankria.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed! I hope my copy of Jabberwocky has crossed the sea when I'm home at the end of this month, so I can fondle and read it.

[wirewalking.livejournal.com]

I especially recommend Nicole Kornher-Stace's "Notes Toward a Comparative Mythology,"

Oh, I'm glad you liked! Was just Googling to see whether these were showing up in people's mailboxes yet and came across this, which is even better.

Have been meaning to friend you since Readercon, actually. Remiss of me. Shall remedy this forthwith.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*grunts* Poems are so hard.