You don't have to go home in a straight line

[sovay]

My poem "Atque in Perpetuum" has been accepted by Not One of Us. It's not based on the dream I had a year ago about Catullus' brother, but it is addressed to him. It's another ghost poem. At a very bad point on Thursday, I almost posted, "I need to learn how to stop being a dybbuk." I'm wondering if this is how I'm doing it.

It is clear fall outside, cloudless. I fell asleep sometime after sunrise, having watched half a dozen episodes of Gravity Falls (2012) with derspatchel and talked until the light came in with leaf-shadows through the windows. I woke up with a cat on my feet. The last few days have been very good.

L'shanah tovah, all.

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[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I think, for once, you have enough to draw you back from becoming a dybbuk. Not just the various threads that would tug at your limbs; enough of a spark of your own to get you through autumn.

At least, that's my wish. Happy new year. And please do cold-ship me some of that apricot fool.

[sovay]

At least, that's my wish. Happy new year.

Thank you. I like to think you know whereof you speak.

And please do cold-ship me some of that apricot fool.

I heard nineweaving ate the last of it, but the recipe is very simple . . .