Monthly Archive: November 2006

curiously common chandeliers

   Elegant one on the left, photograph by Tim Davis; messy rendition on the right, beginning graphic design student’s idea for a cover, 1999 Just thought it was interesting, the chandelier image combined with...

Gladys Hindmarch

A seventh, unnamed ‘editor’, Gladys Hindmarch, was near the centre of their energy vortex. At the same time she was writing nursery rhyme variations in prose rhythms derived from Jack Kerouac and from high...

at home day

granola with yogurt tea – darjeeling apple handful of chopped dates tea – kukicha twig brown lentils slowcooked with turmeric and cider roasted veg – potato, onion, garlic

making plans

you could come over for breakfast but you can’t sleep over

broccoli rabe

I was picking broccoli rabe out in the back garden last night, trying to focus my attention on what I was doing. I just wanted to be okay with it, not feel burdened by...

what I ate today

omelette – eggs, large spoonful of okara, red onion, parmigiano reggiano toast from spelt bread, with butter cranberry corn cake with almond cream, hot mulled cider (Angelica Kitchen) small latté (The Grind, Sunnyside) Negra...

this weekend’s words

mearns unable to confirm this definition online but I read that it became a generic term for poetry written about something that isn’t there, after William Hughes Mearns’ little verse “Antigonish” ekphrasis in contrast,...