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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-12-06 11:30 am
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Since the raging seas and stormy winds parted my love and I

I dreamed that I won the right to a cameo mention as some kind of Boston-area folkloric creature in Margaret Ronald's latest novel by singing "The Lowlands of Holland" in a kulfi shop. You ordered a particular flavor, they asked you to sing for it. I had that terrible real-life blankness that seizes the brain when you know literally more songs than you count and someone says vaguely but encouragingly, having no idea of this, "I don't know, whatever you feel like." Turned out one of the other patrons knew the same version; we wound up trading off harmonies. Is there a kulfi shop anywhere in Boston?

. . . This is probably the most realist dream I've had in months.

My poem "Theseid" has been accepted by Not One of Us.
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[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
If the title is from Lowlands of Holland, it is a slightly different version than I know. Interesting. ("Since these four winds and stormy seas parted my love and I.")

Congratulations on the poem! As always.
sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)

[personal profile] sovay 2011-12-06 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
If the title is from Lowlands of Holland, it is a slightly different version than I know.

It's from the version by Waterson:Carthy, which is the first one I really learned.

Congratulations on the poem! As always.

Thank you!

(Send that cinema one somewhere.)

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking of giving it a lash at the Stone Telling queer issue; d'you think it's queer enough, or should I try something else?

I do think I'm becoming rather a better poet than I had ever hoped to be. I like that.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-12-06 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I was thinking of giving it a lash at the Stone Telling queer issue; d'you think it's queer enough, or should I try something else?

The reading period just closed—I didn't get anything in, either. Not One of Us?

I do think I'm becoming rather a better poet than I had ever hoped to be. I like that.

And your better is quite good.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, I thought the reading period for that issue was December 25th on. I made quite sure.

Do I need to prepare to deploy my tantrumface? Shit.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-12-06 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Do I need to prepare to deploy my tantrumface? Shit.

No, you're right! I just missed the deadline for Science and Science Fiction. My apologies to your heart rate.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-12-06 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Good, I had gotten all the way through glabella-crinkly with stops at huff and puff.

Re: Send! Send!

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Sent! Sent! :)

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2011-12-07 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
I'm ashamed to say that my first thought on seeing [livejournal.com profile] sovay's subject line was to cry, "No! My love and me! How can they sacrifice grammar on the vulgar altar of rhyme!"

Ah me! I have been too long a teacher, and my heart is caulked with chalk.
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[personal profile] sovay 2011-12-07 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"No! My love and me! How can they sacrifice grammar on the vulgar altar of rhyme!"

Take it up with the folk tradition!
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