So storm along, my gallant captains

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My e-mail was down for most of the night and is still getting around to delivering the initially bounced messages, so if you sent me anything awesome within the last ten hours, it may take me until tonight to see it.

In the meantime, may I suggest picking up a copy of Mythic Delirium 1.1? Containing my poem "Poor Old Horse" and a host of other storming, sea-strange, stellar work, including new poems from gwynnega and snowy_owlet and sairaali's debut in both poetry and flash? I am especially fond of this cover, for all the natural reasons.

Discovered last night after I'd made my post of Turing songs: the video for Fiction's "The Apple (for Alan Turing)." I went back and spliced the link in, but I'm singling it out here: it is a beautiful short film. The actor playing Alan isn't quite weird-looking enough, but everything else is perfect.

The plan for today is to spend as much of it as possible at the Peabody Essex Museum with derspatchel. They have Turner seascapes and I've had a rough few weeks. Wish us luck!

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On Cape Elizabeth, at Two Lights, is a lobster shack which is called something like the Lobster Shack at Two Lights.

I have gone there for seafood and the sea since before I was old enough to remember. Two Lights, Crescent Beach, and Kettle Cove are my archetypal sea-coast. I learned to swim in their Atlantic. I took Rob last fall. I'm so glad you've found the Lobster Shack!

(I rarely got lobster there; I was more fond of the tiny fried shrimp. My grandmother would buy lobsters from Harbor Market on the Portland waterfront. I looked them up just now, expecting them to have closed sometime in the last seventeen years, but no!)

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I did not have a whole lobster, but they looked quite reasonably sized. And the presentation of lobster perched on top of a monadnock of fried food was mesmerizing. I kind of wished I'd gotten an extra basket of Maine shrimp. They are never going to be better, probably.

I should've guessed you've been there! I was looking for actual waterside food and that one is perfect. A lot of the time waterside does not actually mean that. The rocks are perfect.

(The Five Islands place on the dock is excellent as well, and there are places to stay if you need a getaway...)

My brother is making speculative sounds about buying a place in Maine. I'm keeping my mouth shut and hoping he does it.