I want to run till my feet start bleeding, I want to make it all the way to the ocean

[sovay]

Some thematic things.

1. My poems "Dis Genite et Geniture Deos" and "Cosmopolitan Bias," published last October in The Cascadia Subduction Zone 7.3, are now free to read online with the rest of their issue. Notes are here. Stephen Miller has popped back up in the news again, so I feel that cursing him is still timely.

2. The rediscovered life of groundbreaking queer Jewish activist Leo Skir: "Two weeks ago, I had said to him, 'You can cure yourself. In a day, a minute, a second, with three words, with six. I'm-not-sick—three words. Three words more: I-love-myself.'"

3. An archaeological, mythological poem I did not write: Judith Willson, "A Bone Flute."

Comments

[moon_custafer]

The poem made me think of Al Purdy’s “Lament for the Dorsets”: http://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/lament-dorsets#B

After 600 years
the ivory thought
is still warm

[asakiyume]

Yay! More works of Sovay out for everyone to enjoy.

[rosefox]

That piece on Leo Skir is tremendous. What a find.

[swan_tower]

If you don't mind me asking: what do you think of the commentary after the poem?

I ask because I'm still ruminating over poetry and how I interact with it, and I found reading the commentary both instructive and puzzling -- it showed me what someone else got out of the poem, but left me uncertain how much of that is what I should have gotten out of it, vs. being one person's individual interpretation that might not be shared.