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You don't have to go home in a straight line
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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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Congrats!!
"I need to learn how to stop being a dybbuk."
Ikh darf dikh fregn - far vus?
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A happy and sweet new year to you also!
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(Well, I googled it, but I think your definition will be more interesting.)
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And a happy new year to you.
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Thank you!
Ikh darf dikh fregn - far vus?
Ikh vel a blitspost dir shraybn.
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Sleeplessness visited the Eburg/Amundsen house last night. It was not welcome.
I am glad the last few days have been good.
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Congrats on the poem, too!
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A dybbuk sits between memory and the dead and puts its fingers on the living.
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Stories, of course, vary. Queer people often become dybbukim.
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Ikh vel a blitspost dir shraybn.
Ikh vel vartn!
A zisn yur :) :)
(I should be offline already... ehh. Perhaps destined to become a dybbuk. Oh, btw, that was an endearment in my family for little girls - a dybykl.)
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I'd have answered if my comments notification hadn't been completely borked!
Read this story.
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All right, next poem's yours.
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Nine
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Eh, thanks.
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Du oykh!
Oh, btw, that was an endearment in my family for little girls - a dybykl.
I didn't know. I like that.
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Thank you! It was actually the good kind of sleepless, for once: we'd have slept sooner if we'd stopped talking.
We've had a lot of sleeplessness going on around here, annoyingly.
Bah. I hope that gets better.
And I swear I'm going to respond to your email about ...Suddenly soon.
No pressure. It should probably go in a post anyway. This week has been full of things I haven't written up.
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Thank you!
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Thank you. Catullus has been important to me for years; it isn't a direct engagement, but it draws on his work.
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Thank you! Now send something to the magazine yourself!
Sleeplessness visited the Eburg/Amundsen house last night. It was not welcome.
I began to wonder years ago if I knew a single person with a straightforward relationship to sleep. I think the answer was no.
I am glad the last few days have been good.
It's been really nice.
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I'd never heard of it before
Congrats on the poem, too!
Thank you!
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Thank you.
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Happy New Year!
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Thank you!
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And yup, time travel.
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I'm wondering if this is how I'm doing it.
If it works, I hope it is.
The last few days have been very good.
I'm glad for this.
L'shanah tovah! I hope this will be a very sweet new year for you.
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At least, that's my wish. Happy new year. And please do cold-ship me some of that apricot fool.
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Thank you!
(Really, I should congratulate you every time, but I'm shy and think I'd get too repetitive. Sorry about that)
Neh. I appreciate it as part of the New Year's wish!
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Art might as well do something.
L'shanah tovah! I hope this will be a very sweet new year for you.
Thank you. Signs are good.
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Thank you. And yours.
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Thank you. I like to think you know whereof you speak.
And please do cold-ship me some of that apricot fool.
I heard
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Sweet.
I am actively looking forward to the rest of this show. I don't have this experience often!
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There are something like eighteen by this point, if you don't think it would be too repetitive. I've been thinking of them as Ghost Signs.
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(How many ghosts make a ghost chapbook?)
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Thank you.
(How many ghosts make a ghost chapbook?)
I seem to have about twenty. Most of them written this year.
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Very well said.
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Congratulations on another well deserved poem placement!
Appropos of 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.
I dreamed on Rosh Ha'shannah that I was being asked to host the annotated TV anthology series of The Dybbuk. I was attempting to decline on the basis on not having the appropriate piano, but they provided me with a baby grand, a blue spotlight and a cave, so I was then in a position to accept. Dream life is weirder than real life, if only by a fractional margin.
It occurs to me now that I ought to have called and asked if you wanted to co-host.
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Thank you!
It occurs to me now that I ought to have called and asked if you wanted to co-host.
If anyone ever makes the offer: hell, yes.
L'shanah tovah!
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