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For those of you who actually every so often still bug me to post...
Wow this journal is pretty much a relic at this point. Facebook kind of took over the purpose that LJ was fulfilling, but did it less fulfillingly ( Read more... ) -
There's No Place I Can Be
I guess Firefly really is all I think about. For those of you so inclined, permaybehaps read my story? -
This will make you crazy
...and not in the good way. But in the even better way.
What do you get when you take pi to 6 decimal places, and turn it into letters?
3.1 4 1 5 9 3
C A D A E I C
Now, what do you get if you're crazy and brilliant enough to write a word-by-word mnemonic for the first ~4000 digits of pi, based on Poe's RavenWhy, the Cadaeic Cadenza, of course ( Read more... ) -
The End Falls Out On You
And to think, if Weija hadn't got me to watch Rome, this might be a very different poem. In class we were assigned to write a "long poem" -- a very "problematic", fuzzy, but thoroughly Canadian form. It meanders, and is long. Mine is a shorter long poem, at about two pages. It was my first experience using the free writing I did over a few days ( Read more... ) -
André's will be done (sort of)
Homes I've HadShower away the hours. Practise, patience, power. A stretch, and a leap in the night-the powers might only be waking. The day starts, and though the rhythm is sweet & the sentences neat, the beat lies at home and the home borrows & borrows & burrows, and waits until there’s no one around, until the time to strike, without sound. ( Read more... ) -
When I Am Old
I love Yeats poems because of their sound, their simultaneous bitterness and sentimentality, and how easy they are to memorise. :) Last Wednesday night and during Thursday I found myself imagining alternate lines for When You Are Old. You can choose at your peril which version you read first... I can't think of a way to decide! Except that his ( Read more... )
