A Bare Pinboard

[tamaranth]

Discovered all sorts of things in the strata of my pinboard, too: old photos, vouchers that expired years ago, notes on soprano / counter-tenor ranges, part of my family tree ...

Also a few clippings and printouts of poems.

Bienvenido Poem for Sophie -- Sandra Cisneros (The author has a lovely, but Flash, site).

Jo Shapcott's 'Quark', which does not seem to be online anywhere (though there's a reference to it almost being banned from Poems on the Underground, due to Language):
'Transcendental', said the technician,
'to stumble on a quark thattalks back.
I will become a mystagogue, initiate
punters into the wonder of it for cash.'
'Bollocks,' said the quark, from its aluminium
nacelle. 'I don't need no dodgy
crypto-human strategising my future.
Gonna down-size under the coco-plum
or champak, drink blue marimbas into
the sunset, and play with speaking quarklike
while I beflower the passing gravitrons.'

Do You Think We'll Ever Get to See Earth, Sir? -- Sheenagh Pugh. (Her website is fascinating: she may be an SF fan, and she's certainly aware of fan fiction.)

Right: once more into the breach. Why, if I've been doing this for six hours, does it look no tidier? (Answer: because I'm not looking into all the empty drawers or the junk-trap under the bureau.)

Am kind of relieved it's not nice enough to head for the seaside.

Comments

[ladymoonray.livejournal.com]

You're doing great. I do think you could probably have a bit of a rest. Try some futon space, rather than the floor, maybe?

*hugs*

Shall come and remove debris asap :)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

If I have a rest, I won't start again. Also, futon covered with boxes.

But I may have to give up. At this rate it'll take me until tomorrow to dig myself out!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I'm having a day like yours - packing up my stuff for the move and finding all kinds of things I'd forgotten about. Mostly old gothwear, so far. I didn't think one person could own so much crushed velvet.

But the poems are wonderful. I'm going to pass on the Sheenagh Pugh one to my Irish friends who I used to write dead-Earth space operas with :)

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Why, if I've been doing this for six hours, does it look no tidier?

'Cos you keep stopping to post to/check LJ?

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

stop channelling my sister! it might be contagious!