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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2013-10-31 07:03 pm
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And you and the corn stood tall

My poem "Hamsa" is now online at Interfictions. Written last September for [livejournal.com profile] ashlyme, that excellent muse. The rest of the issue looks wonderful, autumnally blurring.

This afternoon [livejournal.com profile] derspatchel and I met with the rabbi for the first time to discuss our upcoming wedding.

Happy Halloween.
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[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2013-10-31 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
See, it should have been tomorrow -- then you could have said "Rabbi, rabbi" on the first day of the month.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
See, it should have been tomorrow -- then you could have said "Rabbi, rabbi" on the first day of the month.

I am just going to stare at you for a while.

[identity profile] ethelmay.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know I deserve worse than that. I just couldn't resist Teh Silly.

[identity profile] gaudior.livejournal.com 2013-11-02 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no, this is a good point, worthy of consideration.

(Eeeeee, wedding! Eeeeeeeeeee! yay!)
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2013-10-31 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent news all around!
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Excellent news all around!

It was a good day!

[identity profile] ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com 2013-10-31 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the poem's going online, and on the first meeting with the rabbi. May all go very well.

Happy Halloween.

I'd not thought so much on the day, but perhaps that's why I was working on one of the older songs in the not-quite-ready-for-public-consumption section of my repertory this afternoon.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the poem's going online, and on the first meeting with the rabbi. May all go very well.

Thank you.

[identity profile] ashlyme.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
*blushes* Thank you! I'd forgotten how much I loved that poem.

I hope the meeting went well! Enjoy Halloween.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'd forgotten how much I loved that poem.

You're very welcome. I'm glad it found this home.

I hope the meeting went well! Enjoy Halloween.

Thank you! I missed trick-or-treaters—none of them seemed to come down our street—but maybe next year. And today is is grey and rainy, classic November. The fire season's been put out; it's all wet ashes now until it freezes.

[identity profile] adrian-turtle.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
What a gorgeous poem. I love the soft bricks, especially.

And I hope the wedding planning is making you happy.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
What a gorgeous poem. I love the soft bricks, especially.

Thank you.

And I hope the wedding planning is making you happy.

It is generating way less stress than I have always been told wedding planning entails, so either we are doing something right or something terribly wrong. If the latter, so far I'm good with it.

[identity profile] adrian-turtle.livejournal.com 2013-11-02 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You are working with a very good rabbi. That's got to help.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
It is going to be very wonderful getting to walk with you (so to speak) as you approach marriage. (And yay! published poem!)
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It is going to be very wonderful getting to walk with you (so to speak) as you approach marriage. (And yay! published poem!)

Thank you! I am not sure how much I am going to talk publicly about getting married; it is a major change of life, but it is also something that seems very deeply personal: I am not doing it (we are not doing it) for anyone else. There may be some friendlocked contemplation.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
*nodding*

I'll certainly respect your privacy on the subject, and I in no way mean that comment as pressure for more pre-wedding posts. I very much trust you to share only as much as you feel comfortable sharing.

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!

Nine
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!

Thank you!

[identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Love that poem. And I hope it all goes well with the rabbi.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Love that poem. And I hope it all goes well with the rabbi.

Thank you! We really liked her. We'll be meeting again after we've had some time to think about questions she asked us: ceremony, logistics, rituals that matter to us, rituals that don't.

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2013-11-01 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Love the poem, but my God, that is really an excellent picture you're using in the bio space. It captures you in a confident moment. May you have those ever more frequently.
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[personal profile] sovay 2013-11-01 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
May you have those ever more frequently.

Thank you.

It was taken at the Skellig Burns Supper in January; Tiny Richardson is telling me that it no longer reflects how I look and I looked much better then, but I am trying to stuff him back into his motorcycle and just enjoy having a headshot I don't hate.
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