These walls, these walls keep closing in

[sovay]

My poem "The Wearing Season" is now online at Through the Gate. It is a small but very fine issue, the rest of the TOC being Bogi Takács and Rose Lemberg. This is the poem I wrote during the dress rehearsals for Tomes of Terror: New Arrivals in October, which surprised me considerably: usually I need solitude. I suppose it is one of the ghost poems, even without any names.

I am looking at three apartments today, in a crazed webwork of buses. Wish me luck and not a lot of frostbite.

Comments

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Lovely poem and lovely issue!

Good luck with the apartment search. Stay warm, have tea during and after.

[sovay]

Lovely poem and lovely issue!

I think they make a really nice triptych!

Good luck with the apartment search. Stay warm, have tea during and after.

Thank you. It turned out to be faster to walk all over Somerville in the sub-freezing cold than to attempt the crazed webwork of buses: I caught one and otherwise there was a lot of Scott of the Antarctic. Probably not coincidentally, I am drinking some very hot tea.

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Glad you were able to get warm after. Any luck with the places you saw?

[sovay]

Any luck with the places you saw?

See reply to aedifica and others—I found somewhere amazing, but I won't be the only person who thinks so, and now I just have to wait and hope the household remembers me well.

(I am drinking tea again this morning. I drink a lot of tea. It's hot.)

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Ah, good luck indeed! Fingers crossed for you.

There was a little shop in NY, in the Lower East Side, that was divine for loose leaf tea. It smelled so extraordinarily good, and there was always hot tea when you came in from the cold and tea flowers blooming in small glass teapots. Tea is soothing.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

This may be my favorite thing of yours I've read (which is high praise); it strikes very close to home.

On the subject of which, good luck with the apartment hunt.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Here's to the first apartment you look at being the obvious winner, so you don't have to bother with the other two. Failing that, here's to one of the three being perfect for your needs.

[sovay]

Here's to the first apartment you look at being the obvious winner, so you don't have to bother with the other two. Failing that, here's to one of the three being perfect for your needs.

I looked at all three, but the first is the one I want. Now I wait and see if they want me.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Good luck, bright luck, fair winds, and may good things befall.

[sovay]

Good luck, bright luck, fair winds, and may good things befall.

Thank you. That is a good benison.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[sovay]

Good luck!

I will let you know what happens!

[domparisien.livejournal.com]

Beautifully ghostly poem. And a wonderful issue.

Good luck with the apartment(s)!

[sovay]

Beautifully ghostly poem. And a wonderful issue.

Thank you! Tell mitchell_hart!

Good luck with the apartment(s)!

I may have had some. I am waiting to find out.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Lovely poem. Congratulations on its going online!

I wish you great good luck and no frostbite at all.

[sovay]

Lovely poem. Congratulations on its going online!

Thank you. I am pleased that something I wrote while six people were being part of a subway crash in front of me actually turned out publishable, in addition to good.

I wish you great good luck and no frostbite at all.

It was a close thing, but I still have all my fingers.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

You're welcome. I'm pleased that you're pleased.

It was a close thing, but I still have all my fingers.

I'm delighted that you've still got them. I hope that the apartment which you like will work out for you.

[aedifica]

Good luck, good luck! How did it go?

[sovay]

Good luck, good luck! How did it go?

I found a place I adore and want to live and have told the current tenants so and now I have to wait until next weekend for them to see all the other people who have made appointments. I have no guarantees. I am going to try not to stress out. It's something I really, really want and they are not realtors; I shall wait.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Fingers and toes crossed for you.

Nine

[aedifica]

Ooh. *Very* good luck to you!

[sovay]

*Very* good luck to you!

Thank you. I am trying not to hope.

[zdenka]

Good luck, and stay warm.

[sovay]

Good luck, and stay warm.

I trekked across the frozen wastes from Winter Hill to Inman and back to Ball Square. The first thing I did when derspatchel and I got out to dinner was order hot cocoa.

[gwynnega]

I love that poem.

Good luck with your apartment search!

[sovay]

I love that poem.

Thank you.

Good luck with your apartment search!

I hope I have!

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was good to read that poem again. Wishing you the best.

[sovay]

Oh, it was good to read that poem again. Wishing you the best.

Thank you. I believe at this point I hope.

[prezzey.livejournal.com]

Yay, happy to share a ToC with you! Shavua tov :]

[sovay]

Yay, happy to share a ToC with you! Shavua tov

Likewise!

(And good to know who you are on LJ, too! Hello.)

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Oh this is gorgeous. You just filled my day. I'm constantly amazed at the images you come up with to convey a feeling. Always fresh and striking. You remind me what writing can do!

[sovay]

You remind me what writing can do!

Thank you!

(So go forth and write!)

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

*sending you excellent apartment achieving karma*

[sovay]

*sending you excellent apartment achieving karma*

*will take any karma in that direction I can get right now*