Winter Glitter

I have two poems in the new issue of GlitterPony.

Late night thoughts

Food Network needs to stop showing commercials that tell me to put powdered ranch dressing on pork chops as if that's a reasonable thing to do.

Christmas shopping/wrapping presents should be a career. Probably my favorite thing to do.

Now I'm wondering what other sentences I can write that end with "to do."

Grading 48 essays next week is all I have left to do.

November

Each day brings new clothes. The sun knows it needn't show itself to soak our bones. November is a foreign tongue. Its syllables go monotone in local mouths, mouths yawning wide with gratitude and expectation.

I have some sections of a long poem in the new Alice Blue Review, which is very pretty. All hay and gourds and fall.

Fåhræus (1921), a Swedish physician who devised the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, suggested that the four humours were based upon the observation of blood clotting in a transparent container. When blood is drawn in a glass container and left undisturbed for about an hour, four different layers can be seen. A dark clot forms at the bottom (the "black bile"). Above the clot is a layer of red blood cells (the "blood"). Above this is a whitish layer of white blood cells (the "phlegm", now called the buffy coat). The top layer is clear yellow serum (the "yellow bile").

Vacation Highlights

lake root beer, using a boat to buy ice cream, boat ride ice cream,
coconut gelato, capital oktoberfest, culver's, great dane soft pretzels,
milwaukee art museum, woodland patterns bookstore, juggling
store, 75 degrees, sheep's milk cheese, pretzilla pretzel buns.

What I've been reading lately

Fainting in women was a commonplace trope or stereotype in Victorian England and in contemporary and modern depictions of the period. This may have been partly due to genuine ill-health (the respiratory effects of corsets are frequently cited), but it was fashionable for women to affect an aristocratic frailty and create a scene by fainting at a dramatic moment.