No yeye elektronnyye pis’ma!!!

(It’s how you say “But her e-mails!” in Russian.)

Seriously, Comrades.

 

 

A recommendation: The Blue Mountain Review

I’ve had the pleasure of getting acquainted recently with The Blue Mountain Review.  The poetry there is simply superb.  I suggest that it makes excellent summer reading — I know I’ll be bringing it along on the annual “River Trip” with the Mary Washington College kids.

Click here and peruse the newly published Issue 7:  The Blue Mountain Review, Issue 7.

For more information about the journal, you can find its Facebook page right here:  The Blue Mountain Review.

 

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A “Naiad,” John William Waterhouse, 1894

Oil on canvas.  Its alternate title is “Hylas with a Nymph.”

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“Echo and Narcissus,” John William Waterhouse, 1903

Oil on canvas.

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An excerpt from W. H. Auden’s “Hunting Season”

Down in the startled valley

Two lovers break apart:

He hears the roaring oven

Of a witch’s heart;

Behind his murmur of her name

She sees a marksman taking aim.

 

(1952)

 

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“Sleep and His Half-Brother, Death,” John William Waterhouse, 1874

Oil on canvas.

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Just a reminder …

R.J. Davey’s “Panthalassa” is only 99 cents over at Amazon.  It’s a wonderful small collection of poetry that I cheerfully recommend.

You can find it here:  “Panthalassa” at Amazon.com.

 

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One snail, one jackrabbit, three deer and three baby groundhogs.

That sounds like a hand for a children’s card game.

I encountered all of these during just a six-minute walk outside my friend’s house yesterday.  The jackrabbit, the deer and one of the baby groundhogs were all too fast for me to get a shot of.

The baby groundhogs were adorable – they’re just nervous little balls of brown fur.  The trick is sneaking up behind them.  (Watch your six, groundhogs.)

 

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