years and years ago i held a poll about what the superior form of art was between things like paintings, books, movies, songs, etc. superior in which regard i don't recall if i specified. i think no one agreed with me, which is terrific. my answer was lyric songs. i still believe it. [obviously no form is truly 'superior' -- all are virtuous and ( Read more... )

he approached the girl and started to lay his hand upon her forehead. she drew back with a savage little growl. a smile touched his lips ( Read more... )

Pinch HitterWhen the slugger gets beaned, and the home crowd's dispirited away ( Read more... )

i was playing around with google assistant tonight on my new phone. (not that i've never had google assistant before, but ( Read more... )

poet librarians and verse-vica

i stumble upon, unseeking, the fact that tori amos crafted her 2003 sonic autobiography (toa!) under the appellation tales of a librarian and per wikipedia constructed it according to the dewey decimal system

by chance, letting the chance of free association and random words guide me, i stumbled upon an author i was unfamiliar with, an author whom it appears was as remarkable and admirable a person as she may have been an author (not having had any real opportunity to investigate the latter as yet, i cannot opine). an author named helen hunt jackson. an ( Read more... )

i ran across a case today with a plaintiff whose surname is upthegrove. never heard of it before but it seems reasonably common. it's a michigan case, but there appear to be great ties for the name to pennsylvania, as it apparently is anglicization of dutch names like updegraff and german names like op den graeff. the name itself is based on ( Read more... )

You are a friend then, as I make it out ( Read more... )

a poem, recited.

(shared with me by my parents)

today was whitsunday for the eastern church, and so, having missed the day for the western church, and having been pointed to larkin's 'the whitsun weddings' by grashupfer, we dined al fresco and drank a whitsun ale from local brewery arcadia, and recited the larkin along with the traherne, ashbery, and suckling this literary blog paired.