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Had a great time out last night with my partner and a couple of friends. We went to a little brew pub, its interior done up sort of kitschy island/beach style. Games stacked up in the corner. Had a couple of drinks, a couple of fancy hot dogs. Chatted and played a couple of games of 31. I was out first the first time, almost won the second.
Received a really nice handmade mug from our friends as my birthday present, which I'll cherish: she made it in her pottery class, and it's a smaller one, maybe roughly teacup sized? A little larger? Meant for smaller drinks. Seems like it'll be perfect for my little Moka pot.
This morning I woke up and it's downright cool. The kitchen window covered completely in dew; I was just wearing a t-shirt and was shivering when I let the dogs out to pee. It feels like a fall morning. We were supposed to have a hot week, and that's just sort of vanished.
I'm sitting with a glass of iced coffee, working through a set of poems. I'm submitting a chapbook manuscript and have been trying to rework the middle poem. This a grouping of a dozen or so unrelated poems from the last few years that work as a whole to create a narrative of loss, regret, constricting time. Two of the poems are autobiographical, including the one I'm reworking, découpé style. Not using scissors (just Word), but trying different combinations of the original lines, seeing what emerges from these new combinations and orderings. It's a balancing act: trying to get things right, trying to ensure the poem works on its own, trying to ensure it coheres with the rest of the poems in the manuscript. This will keep me busy for a while; I set myself a deadline of the weekend to send things off. Hoping I can make it.
And I received a couple of little parcels in the mail yesterday: birthday presents from my family, who head overseas next week. Looks like a few books. They know me. I probably have fifty, sixty books in my reading backlog. What're a few more? I'll get to them eventually, either next week or later next year.