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So Much Talk.

October 1, 2020 by Exangel

by Rose Jermusyk.

Healer-Witch: Why am I awake? Who is in my garden? What is she eating?

Parsley: Are you afraid of going bald, my child? Seeking a fairer complexion? Or is all
this to stop what grows in your belly?

Daughter-Mother: What would I do if I had the chance to start again? Would I have still
sought his love as an escape? Would I have stolen away in a wholly other direction?

Healer-Witch: What will you do with this new chance? Who will you be when this thing is done? Where will you go?

Brother: Why are you doing this, Sister? Why does this anger Father so? What are you trying to teach me?

Father-Broker: How many years have you longed for a child? What can you offer as payment for a child such as this? How golden will be your silence?

Sage: Does your milk flow with unbidden memories? Would you like it to stop? Do you know there is nothing I can do to stop the remembering?

Fairy-Stepmother: How comes your hair so golden? How comes your skin so fair? How comes your voice so loud a silence?

Stepfather-Death: How like your father are you? How like your mother will you be? What choice do I have but to lock you away, protect your good from your bad?

Tower-Girl: Am I the first to see the world from such a high window? Will I be the last? Will no one else ever own their own skull to be such a room held aloft by their towering body?

Suitor: Will you not sing to me from your perch, pretty bird? Will you not tell me your name? Will you not toss to me so much as an apple from which you have taken a bite?

Gossip: Do you know who that is? Do you know what they say about her? Do you know the awful chance you take loving such as her?

Rosemary: Are we baking bread today? Are you breaking bread that I may clear the air? How shall we remember without blame, all things as settled as a full stomach?

Love-Note: How much of the world have you seen? How easy is it for you to take flight? How lonely are you on the road?

Reply: How much of the world you like to see? How long a rope is your hair? How could I ever again be lonely with you by my side?

Scissors-Obtained: Will you leave no farewell note? Are you willing to let him do the climbing for you? Are you strong enough to do your own climbing?

Cut-Tresses: Did it work? How far away did you get? Will you ever recognize us, woven upon some old woman’s head?

Open-Road: Didn’t get very far selling that hair, did you? Can’t go back and don’t know how to go on, do you? What’s to come of you now when you haven’t even your own voice to speak for you?

Thyme: Would you like some honey to treat those burns, my son? Who will you trust to point you in the right direction? How does a blind man find a silent woman?

Crossroads: Any idea which way she went? Where did you say you would meet? Why didn’t you insist on leaving hand-in-hand?

Wanderers: How else could we be sure of our own strength? How else could we know what we really wanted? What other path could we have possibly taken?

Time: Will you please look where you are going? Can you not see me walking here? Do you not know that all you can do is move forward from where you are right now?

 

Filed Under: EAP: The Magazine, Fall 2020: Sort Of.

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In This Issue.

  • Who Was Dorothy?
  • Those Evil Spirits.
  • The Screaming Baboon.
  • Her.
  • A Tale of Persistence.
  • A Conversation with Steve Hugh Westenra.
  • Person Number Twelve.
  • Dream Shapes.
  • Cannon Beach.
  • The Muse.
  • Spring.
  • The Greatness that was Greece.
  • 1966, NYC; nothing like it.
  • Sun Shower.
  • The Withering Weight of Being Perceived.
  • Broken Clock.
  • Confession.
  • Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse.
  • Sometimes you die, I mean that people do.
  • True (from “My Life with Dogs”).
  • Fragmentary musings on birds and bees.
  • 12 Baking Essentials to Always Have in Your Poetry.
  • Broad Street.
  • A Death in Alexandria.
  • My Forked Tongue.
  • Swan Lake.
  • Long Division.
  • Singing against the muses.
  • Aphorisms from “What Remains to Be Said”.

In The News.

That cult classic pirate/sci fi mash up GREENBEARD, by Richard James Bentley, is now a rollicking audiobook, available from Audible.com. Narrated and acted by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio, you’ll be overwhelmed by the riches and hilarity within.

“Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies The Ark de Triomphe crew for a revenge-fueled, thrill-a-minute adventure to the ends of the earth and beyond.

This frolicsome tale of skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas Pynchon, Treasure Island, 1940s cinema, and notable historical figures, this mélange of delights will captivate readers with its rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial history.”

THE SUPERGIRLS is back, revised and updated!

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In The News.

Newport Public Library hosted a three part Zoom series on Visionary Fiction, led by Tod.  

And we love them for it, too.

The first discussion was a lively blast. You can watch it here. The second, Looking Back to Look Forward can be seen here.

The third was the best of all. Visions of the Future, with a cast of characters including poets, audiobook artists, historians, Starhawk, and Mary Shelley. Among others. Link is here.

In the News.

SNOTTY SAVES THE DAY is now an audiobook, narrated by Last Word Audio’s mellifluous Colby Elliott. It launched May 10th, but for a limited time, you can listen for free with an Audible trial membership. So what are you waiting for? Start listening to the wonders of how Arcadia was born from the worst section of the worst neighborhood in the worst empire of all the worlds since the universe began.

In The News.

If you love audio books, don’t miss the new release of REPORT TO MEGALOPOLIS, by Tod Davies, narrated by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio. The tortured Aspern Grayling tries to rise above the truth of his own story, fighting with reality every step of the way, and Colby’s voice is the perfect match for our modern day Dr. Frankenstein.

In The News.

Mike Madrid dishes on Miss Fury to the BBC . . .

Tod on the Importance of Visionary Fiction

Check out this video of “Beyond Utopia: The Importance of Fantasy,” Tod’s recent talk at the tenth World-Ecology Research Network Conference, June 2019, in San Francisco. She covers everything from Wind in the Willows to the work of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a look at The History of Arcadia along the way. As usual, she’s going on about how visionary fiction has an important place in the formation of a world we want and need to have.

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