I want you and you are not here. I pause
in this garden, breathing the colour thought is
before language into still air. Even your name
is a pale ghost and, though I exhale it again
and again, it will not stay with me. Tonight
I make you up, imagine you, your movements clearer
than the words I have you say you said before.

Wherever you are now, inside ( Read more... )

For Robert Philen

You are like me, you will die too, but not today:   
you, incommensurate, therefore the hours shine:   
if I say to you “To you I say,” you have not been   
set to music, or broadcast live on the ghost   
radio, may never be an oil painting or
Old Master’s charcoal sketch: you are
a concordance of person, number, voice,
and place, ( Read more... )

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Anime/Cartoons

• Bob's Burgers 10.14-10.17
• Steven Universe Future 1-20

Books/Novellas

• Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews* 
• One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews*
• Desert Songs of the Night by Suheil Bushrui

 Well, all DC libraries are closed until at least the first of April, so after a visit to my mom's place over the weekend to ensure she was taking this seriously and a dentist appointment, I've been social distancing by way of catching up on podcasts, reading a lot of books, and hammering away at the season finale of my Teenage Witch AU.

I had to ( Read more... )

 * = Rewatch/reread

Anime/Cartoons

• Bob's Burgers 10.12-10.13

Books/Novellas

• How Lovely the Ruins: Inspirational Poems and Words For Difficult Times edited by Elizabeth Alexander 
• Oasis by Katya de Becerra
• Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim 
• Can of Worms by Kathy Mackel* 

 * = Rewatch/reread
Anime/Cartoons

• American Dragon Jake Long 1.01-1.04
• Bob’s Burgers 10.11
• Danny Phantom 1.01-2.20
• Reboot 1.06-1.08

Books/Novellas

• Clean Sweep by Ilona Andrews* 

 * = Rewatch/reread

Anime/Cartoons

• Bob's Burgers 10.09-10.10
• Reboot 1.01-1.05
• She-Ra 4.01-4.13

Books/Novellas

• Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
• Avalon High by Meg Cabot

 * = Rewatch/reread

Anime/Cartoons

• Bob's Burgers 10.05-10.08

Books/Novellas

• The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
• Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel Novel by A. W. Jantha
• Songs of America by Jon Meacham  
• The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan  

 Well, so far I spent about 7 or 8 hours on Monday in urgent care getting diagnosed with a kidney stone, and am currently on a ten-day medicine plan to hopefully get rid of that, so Thanksgiving is gonna be SO much fun this year! Especially since apparently there are multiple types of kidney stones and you won't know how to adjust your diet until ( Read more... )

 * = Rewatch/reread

Anime/Cartoons

• Bob's Burgers 10.02-10.04
• The Bravest Knight 1.06-1.13
• Camp Camp 4.18

Books/Novellas

• To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers 
• The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox