Oh, NPR, I love you. Today I heard excerpts from
Drunk History in a
Morning Edition story about how Francis Scott Key composed "The Star-Spangled Banner," just in time for the 4th of July! I think a noble (ignoble?) goal of any great comedic actor would be to appear on
Drunk History at Comedy Central. It's basically real history, inebriated.
Please don't give alcohol to your dogs. Today's new post at
Escape Into Life is a preview of the Dog Days posts to come, illustrated with this lovely
Shar-pei with pearl by EJ Miley, Jr. She is clearly not drunk. She is very modest, yet elegant in her pearl collar.
Today's mail brought two new issues of literary journals, with me in them! (Pause for glee!)
Crab Creek Review, with this beautiful image on a cover designed by Anu Delgertsogt. My poem in it, called "Glazed," is about a variable weather on a sweet, high-humidity day in April. Today is a sweet, high-humidity day in July. And
Spoon River Poetry Review (srpr), 39.1, Summer 2014, with a winter poem of mine in it, called "Funeral Flag," with talk of rain and frost. Both poems have clouds in them, as does today in actual history. I like how my heavy precipitation poems appear in journals named for a creek and a river!
I got the Crab Creek Review, and LOVED your glazed poem. So much beautiful language!! Great job!
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should temporarily change the name of this blog to "Wait! I Have a Dog?"
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Thanks, dears! Carol, I'm so glad you like the poem. Seana, that's a fun idea, indeed. Might turn into a post title, if not the blog title. I secretly yearn for an Airedale.
ReplyDelete"Wait, I have a dog!" Love this whole post and comments. You are an inspiration.
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