Tea leaves, bicycle chains and dream of Christopher, Christopher and the machine

[sovay]

I am drinking goat's milk hot chocolate from my Alan Turing mug. (It's from the ACM.)

My poem "The Clock House" has been accepted by Stone Telling.

It's a piece I wanted to write since the fall of 2008; it took me a year once I got started. It is for Christopher Morcom. It is also for Alan Turing.

It is Turing's centenary year. The call to grant him a posthumous pardon for his conviction for gross indecency was just rejected. (He did get a stamp.) I submitted the poem specifically for Stone Telling's queer issue.

They need more submissions. Send them some.

I did believe it possible for a spirit at death to go to a universe entirely separate from our own, but I now consider that matter and spirit are so connected that this would be a contradiction in terms. It is possible however but unlikely that such universes may exist.
—Alan Turing, "The Nature of Spirit" (1932)

Comments

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's a lovely poem, and it deserves such a fine setting.

I wish I could think of anything to write for them that would suit, but I can't. I hope they can get more submissions soon, and that they'll be worthy of sharing a TOC with "The Clock House".

[sovay]

Congratulations! That's a lovely poem, and it deserves such a fine setting.

Thank you!