The smell of the sea took on ominous implications

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My poems "Being Providence," "Settling Accounts," and "Trying for It," are now online at The Revelator's Special We ❤ Lovecraft Issue. These are, respectively, the poem I wrote for H.P. Lovecraft after the Brattle's film festival in August, the poem I wrote for asakiyume on the spring full moon of Nisan, and the poem I wrote for Thomas Andrews on the centenary of the Titanic, and I am exceptionally pleased to be able to announce their appearance in this magazine. All three are ghost poems. I think they are some of my best. I am seeing the year out with exorcisms.

I dreamed a title: Of Mercury and Other Musics. What kind of book it belonged to, unfortunately, I didn't remember when I woke. I'll just have to make one up.

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Congratulations. All of those are beautiful, and it's a pleasure to read them again.

Thank you. I think I am going to have to put together a chapbook of ghosts: I have enough of them. I just don't know if I've gotten to all the ones I need.

I kissed a girl named Zenia Kabuki, assuming I'm rightly reading what I wrote on waking

That's like manga by Dorothy Parker.

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Thank you.

You're welcome. I think that chapbook would be a lovely thing.

That's like manga by Dorothy Parker.

Excellent way of putting it. I like how you think.

There's a Xenia in Ohio--it's about a hundred miles southwest of my alma mater. I'm not sure if that was part of the inspiration or not. I also found myself wondering, I think even as I was dreaming, if Zenia was somehow short for Zenobia.

I seem to have a page of notes from that dream. I should probably try to write them up.