Sloe Gin by Seamus Heaney The clear weather of juniper darkened into winter. She fed gin to sloes and sealed the glass container. When I unscrewed it I smelled the disturbed tart stillness of a bush rising through the pantry. When I poured it it had a cutting edge and flamed like Betelgeuse. I drink to you in smoke-mirled, blue- black sloes, bitter and dependable.
Sloe Gin by Seamus Heaney
There's no money in poetry, as they say, but there's no money in short stories either.
What about novels?
No. All the money's in home repairs.
scenes with just the two of them are rare, and gold
but then we'd miss out on Roger and Peggy closing out the office and him gifting her Bert's painting of an octopus pleasuring a woman - and it's all worth it for that!
Almodóvar holds gossip in gloriously high regard
writing is boring and frustrating and painful and ridiculous and confusing and embarrassing and there is nothing on this earth i want more. i’m always trying to make more time for writing, i always want more time to write because i know how much time it takes
that's the best part of the Phillips "On Daring" book - so yeah, get it!
one working brain cell that's about to go kaput
WXPN playing "Sunday, Bloody Sunday," and it's like I've never heard this song before, but also I've heard it almost every day of my life, you know?
So far my 5 day old daughter has watched Industry and Shoresy. Not sure what that says about me, but that’s what’s up over here.
If it isn’t baroque, don’t fix it 🎶
Over here wondering where my yearly Threepenny Review rejection be.
You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that: when you left, the area around here rose a tilted tide, and everything that offers desolation drained away.
Asterisks are my favorite fallen stars.
*This poem was found after the poet's death on the back of an envelope from Helen Vender, November 28, 1981.
Peseroff really "gets" my project
thanks: Joyce & Norman
"Some books of poetry take on a single subject... In others, artists create a work into which they pour everything they know. Expansive, elegiac, exuberant, tender yet cool and precise in its observations, Reading Water is such a book."
www.poetryinreview.com/reviews/read...
finishing Nova Scotia house now!
from Jonathan Franzen's 2013 By the Book interview in the New York Times: Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). The book creates the experience. If I’m loving something, I suddenly discover large chunks of reading time that I wasn’t aware of having.
This is one of those quotes I think about more than any other.
it feels pretty good to rip a heater once a week - also you get to say things like "rip" and "heater"
I like the old school ones with folks smoking. When I hit 50 I aim to start smoking again.
“When the eye loses the ability to see an object for the fact of its very nearness, then the imagination must alter the lens. A poem may bring us what we see in it just such a way. It reaches through the little hole in the eye and puts the thing in mind, that realm in which perception and forgetting are simultaneous, where every presence coincides with a corresponding absence, where experience, as in an old iconic painting, holds aside the breast of its garment to reveal not a burning heart, but a nothing that pulses and is on fire.”
In case any poets needed some Dan Beachy-Quick tonight...
"When the eye loses the ability to see an object for the fact of its very nearness, then the imagination must alter the lens. A poem may bring us what we see in it just such a way."
there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone.
Yeah, I get that criticism. I'm curious what the consensus is though. Saul was often very slow and didn't seem go anywhere quick. I think there's a enough goodwill for Gilligan that he'll be able to do whatever he wants, at whatever pace he chooses.
The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.
so much love for everyone reading and thinking about my work, all that time and effort
in addition, I'll be back in the US and doing some reading/talk dates in late April (early May) - shout if you want me to come visit!
🌟NEW REVIEW ALERT! Check out Tyler Truman Julian’s review on READING WATER by Derek JG Williams.🌟
Link in bio!
www.theshorepoetry.org/shore-things...
I fall completely on the other side of this. I liked the pace of it and generally found the episodes to be quite funny. The scene with the drone? C'mon!
THE PITT 🤝 INDUSTRY
Me somehow understanding everything despite not following 98% of the jargon.
oh look, hot garbage
Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night.
Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim.
Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen.
Authoritarianism hurts all of us.
