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"And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be? ... You'd be nowhere. Why, you're only a sort of thing in his dream! If that there King was to wake you'd go out -- bang! -- just like a candle!"

"Hush! You'll be waking him, I'm afraid, if you make so much noise."

"Well it's no use your talking about waking him when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

Thursday, October 27, 2005

and another thing to be O so happy about

Suzanne Frischkorn's Spring Tide is now available. I cannot wait to get mine or for you to get yours.

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Favorite peeps nominated for Pushcarts by No Tell Motel:

Charles Jensen
Jasper Bernes
Cynthia Huntington

All deserving. You rock the many rooms of the house.

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Books in the mail I came home to find on my doorstep:

Aaron McCollough's Welkin
Kirsten Kaschock's Unfathoms
Paul Guest's The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World
Dan Beachy-Quick's North True South Bright
Rebecca Loudon's Tarantella
Matthea Harvey's Sad Little Breathing Machine
Tony Tost's Invisible Bride
Ange Mlinko's Starred Wire
Ray Gonzalez's Consideration of the Guitar, New and Selected Poems

So many more on my wishlist--and more to add--but doing the best I can.

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Sunny day, Midwestern fall. The leaves are brilliant, the sky a single wash of watery blue. Can't stop looking at it. Someone remind me to step outside, away from the window, into it.

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Can't paint, but am painting. Watercolor. Just for the smell of the paint and the feel of cold pressed paper. For the way blue and sienna bleed together and look like sky and pink mud.

"and what is the use of a book...without pictures or conversations?"


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