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.

Comments

[rose-lemberg.livejournal.com]

My poem "Atque in Perpetuum" has been accepted by Not One of Us.

Congrats!!

"I need to learn how to stop being a dybbuk."
Ikh darf dikh fregn - far vus?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

U l'chiy! (He says, misspelling it.)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo on the poem; sorry about the sleepless night. We've had a lot of sleeplessness going on around here, annoyingly. And I swear I'm going to respond to your email about ...Suddenly soon.

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

A happy and sweet new year to you also!

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

What is a dybbuk?

(Well, I googled it, but I think your definition will be more interesting.)

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on the poetry sale.

And a happy new year to you.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that poem a lot. Congratulations!

Sleeplessness visited the Eburg/Amundsen house last night. It was not welcome.

I am glad the last few days have been good.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The forest creatures are all very interested in Gravity Falls these days. And how lovely to let the sunrise be your lullaby.

Congrats on the poem, too!

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the poem.
Happy New Year!

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

L'shana tovah, and congratulations on the poem being accepted. (Really, I should congratulate you every time, but I'm shy and think I'd get too repetitive. Sorry about that)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I'm glad that poem is accepted. It's a wonderful one.

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.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Well done. May the New Year be joyful.

[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.

[selidor]

Excellent.

(How many ghosts make a ghost chapbook?)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

L'shana tova u'bracha.

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.