I heard the grey wolf sing her serenade at night

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[reposted from last night, on account of Livejournal being totally borked]

My epic collaboration with Mike Allen and Nicole Kornher-Stace, "The King of Cats, the Queen of Wolves," is now online at Apex Magazine. Interview conducted by Francesca Forrest here, outtakes here. I keep forgetting I actually wrote a sestina for this poem.

I dreamed last night about following a shadowy sort of cult, the kind that draws circles on bare apartment floors and chooses sacrifices from among themselves, but I also dreamed about day planners and waiting at bus stops in nicotine-lit nighttime rain, talking to janitors in off-season university stairwells, so it was clearly one of those lifestyles that is much less romantic in person.

I am so tired. It would be nice if my brain would come back.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Now if only people will realize LJ is up again.

[mrbelm.livejournal.com]

Two sestinas! Very nicely done.

Also, excellent musical choice. Have you heard "To Cut is to Cure"?

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Bravi!

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Phew! I just read the interview (before reading the poem). This is an incredible undertaking. I loved hearing the thought process behind the poem's creation and unfolding and how you all worked with and off each other. With this background, tonight, I'm going to find a cup of tea and a quiet place and read what, after all these years, you produced.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

*surfaces*
See. You CAN write a sestina and have it be rich and worthwhile.