redactions, or: how to make a girl's sleepless night

yes! yes! just when i was about to send an inquiry to redactions magazine, i received a note with the subject line "This Is Just To Say" ...

Congratulations! "Redactions: Poetry & Poetics" would like to publish "Sodium (na)," "scandium (sc)," and "radium (ra)" in its upcoming issue 8/9, due out in February 2007. As payment, you will receive two contributor copies.

and this came a couple of hours after nadam had told me he had two poems accepted by them today. looks like we will be sharing zine space. :)

the three poems redactions accepted are all part of the periodic table series, and ekphrastic poems (ie inspired by / based on paintings).

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i woke up sniffling today (yesterday, really, it is 3 am on monday here), with a headache and a temperature, after a horrible night, but still went to reinhard's birthday do - his 40th birthday. though he does not look much different from when i first met him 15 years ago. i'll post a pic when i've got them edited.

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oh - and i wrote my first abecedarian today! it's mr mccouch's fault, of course, as usual.

song of the day: the things we never said by the wonderful thea gilmore.

I lipsticked "Fuck You" on the mirror
As a mark of my respect
And wandered out into the street
Well what the hell did you expect
And the old laundrette is hissing our song
Like it doesn't give a damn
And the cars are all french kissing
In some lonely traffic jam
And I've been talking to the radio
Cos it doesn't answer back ...