sovay | Did you sleep well? Did you sleep fine? Did you sleep much at all?

My poem "The Lost Aphrodite" has been accepted by The Cascadia Subduction Zone. In July,

rose_lemberg asked me for a poem about stones; I wrote this one the next day on the commuter train to Salem. It's not the perspective from which I usually write about the ancient world.

I did take a nap yesterday, right after posting. That did not stop me from failing to get more than another hour and a half of sleep last night. So far I have stayed awake through a morning meeting (online) with my fellow editors at Strange Horizons, an afternoon showing of Rex Ingram's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) at the Somerville Theatre, cat-feeding errands with

derspatchel, housecleaning with

rushthatspeaks and

gaudior, and then some more Steven Universe. I think it has actually been a reasonably productive day. I'd just like to feel less like I'm running some comparative experiment in sleep deprivation. I have movies to write about. Not to mention poems. Someday. It might be fun.

Have some gryphons from the Black Sea.

Did you sleep well? Did you sleep fine? Did you sleep much at all?

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