sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2010-03-29 01:53 pm

Save me, I am not a goat

My poem "Idle Thoughts While Watching a Faun," after [livejournal.com profile] elisem's earrings of the same name, is now online at Strange Horizons.

My novelette "A Ceiling of Amber, a Pavement of Pearl," originally published in Singing Innocence and Experience (2004), will be reprinted in this month's Sirenia Digest alongside [livejournal.com profile] greygirlbeast's newest story, "Houndwife." If you don't already have a subscription, why not?

I have no idea why, tonight being the first night of Pesach and my family's seder, I dreamed that I had been invited to celebrate a (fictional) Hindu festival with my downstairs neighbors in the converted textile mill where I was living. There was discussion of the fact that outsiders writing about religious traditions tend to focus on the wrong things—and why do they fetishize the floor-washing? I dunno, wouldn't you want a clean floor if all your relatives were coming over? All hail self-reflexively critical dreams.

Speaking of which, I have to clean the house.

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
These are all excellent things!

[identity profile] cucumberseed.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The little wind frets the hedges in their fading,

bellies a spider's shell-strung caul: a sibyl.

The faun in the summer of the world smiles,

too late to uninvoke, growing home.


I must have seen this before, but I still adore it.

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent. I'm delighted for the publications.

That's a wonderful dream--I particularly like the bit about the floor-washing.

Happy house-cleaning! Chag Pesach Sameach!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Thank you. If applicable, likewise!

You're welcome!

House-cleaning I probably should do, but I'm not doing it the now. :-)
As far as Passover, I'm RC, but I'm always delighted to be wished a happy one of any holiday. A body can never receive too many good wishes, I reckon. Thank you!
gwynnega: (lordpeter mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2010-03-29 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the publications!

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I just recently finished reading Until We Have Faces, in which Psyche imagines a palace of amber and gold. Your title of your story makes me think of that--except amber and pearl are a better combination, both being created from living things.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I did like it! I intend to do a post about it at some point....

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay poem :) I am not allowed to read till I have at least a thousand more words of diss, but it's an excellent motivator for me, thank you *grins*

re: the floor washing, your dream is so close to exactly right! Only it missed the potential of "...if your relatives were coming over and you tend to eat sitting on the floor on feast days?"

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's gorgeous! And I especially love how it wraps up :)

I susect there's a layer or two I don't have the referents for & am missing, but this happens :)

[identity profile] shweta-narayan.livejournal.com 2010-04-01 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
Er... what it is I'm not getting :) Or possibly sideways references I could look up? I know sometimes with your poems I am insufficiently well-read & need to do some research & reread to get resonances, and this one feels like that, only I don't know what to look up.

[identity profile] shawnalenore.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, what a beautiful poem...
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[identity profile] coffeeandink.livejournal.com 2010-03-29 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I have no idea why, tonight being the first night of Pesach and my family's seder, I dreamed that I had been invited to celebrate a (fictional) Hindu festival with my downstairs neighbors in the converted textile mill where I was living. There was discussion of the fact that outsiders writing about religious traditions tend to focus on the wrong things—and why do they fetishize the floor-washing? I dunno, wouldn't you want a clean floor if all your relatives were coming over? All hail self-reflexively critical dreams.

This may be the best thing I have read all day.

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!
[Save me, I am not a goat???]
[Unless its another Passover ref.]

[identity profile] schreibergasse.livejournal.com 2010-03-30 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Best wishes and luck l'Pesach, btw!]

[identity profile] stinger78.livejournal.com 2010-03-31 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
I'd just like to say, "I love your poetry."

That's all. :D