"What's best for us, the reader, would be more poems, more of Linda Crosfield's wise and entertaining voice."
Much excitement today. Michael Dennis reviewed my chapbook, What's Best For Us on his blog. You can read it here. It's the no-two-covers-the-same chapbook I put together for the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival in July, which I blogged about here. The last few copies are at the Kootenay Gallery of Art in Castlegar. A good reason to visit!
I've always loved this poem by Thomas Hood and think of it every year when November rolls around. Today in Ootishchenia we're getting our first real taste of snow. The ground is slowly getting covered and branches are starting to look weighed down.
"November"
No sun - no moon!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!
No morn - no noon -
No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day.
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member -
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! -
November!
Been crazy busy of late, making books. Here are two Coptic bound journals I made for Nelson's annual Spayghetti and No Balls SPCA fundraiser, happening this Saturday up at Mary Hall. I have a bunch more in various states of grace, hopefully to be finished ere long.
Since I last posted I turned into a senior citizen! If anybody under the age of, oh I don't know, thirty, is reading this, my advice is to pay close attention to your life because it really does go by fast and you won't believe how it picks up speed as you edge closer to that precipice known as the end. It was a quiet birthday, celebrated over a lovely dinner with family and good friends. Ultimately, that's what it's all about.
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