Where indeed?
After making avocadoes for lunch (mashed with poached eggs for Julia, with prawns and pink sauce for me (it got too complicated last time I went into detail1) I settled down to a few quizzes, some conversation and, almost inevitably, a nap. Well, the quizzes are meant to sharpen me up and the conversation is meant to be something married people do, like discussing the husband’s shortcomings and planning to buy new cushions. Life can’t all be about being happy and doing what you want.
I then, having finally managed to find out how to switch the sound on, attended a haibun reading hosted by the Haibun Journal as part of Irish Poetry Week. I think this link should get you there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0r0XxIUnPE&t=3s
That took a while, and was quite enjoyable, though I do get twitchy just sitting there listening. haibun that are quite short on the page seem to take forever when read. Then I spent twenty minutes looking for a notebook from last week – it had some haiku in it that I needed and I’ve ben looking for three days. Anyway, i found them and they are now typed up.
I had a look at Failed Haiku as I’d sent them a submission late last month. It went on the last day of submissions and and I’ve heard nothing back. This unusual, but it seems they have had some internet problems. I’d like to know whether it was late, not good enough or just disappeared, but at the back of my mind is the idea that they do an issue every month and the fewer emails they get from whining writers the better.
Fish finger sandwiches for tea, with potato wedges and tartare sauce for me, with wedges and ratatouille for Julia. Sometimes there is a point beyond which I cannot go and I am feeling all vegged up…
A little more TV, including The Coroner, which I quite like, though it isn’t, I admit, the most complex of shows.
Ah well, I’d better get back to poetry, I need an early night because it’s work tomorrow again.
Finding a lost notebook in twenty minutes is very swift work. I have spent longer than that just trying to think where I should start looking.
To be fair, I’d done the thinking and looked in a couple of other places the day before. This was just the final effort, so I may be giving a misleading picture of my abilities there.
That explains it.
🙂
Thank you for sharing the link, Simon. So interesting to hear haibun read aloud by the writers.
It helps that a lot of them are from Ireland, it’ s a very restful accent. Glad you enjoyed it.
Good luck with the Failed Haiku submission, Quercus. We are rooting for you!
I am listening to the Haiku readings now. Thanks for the link.
No response at all is bound to keep you wondering. We liked The Coroner, too. I resisted sending you this on part one. https://youtu.be/5oBMDcLf6WA Sandy Denny was a childhood neighbour and special friend of my brother
I love that song, and actually learned it many, many years ago. You and your brother were lucky to have known her.
I’ve finally found the sound on my computer, so enjoyed listening too.
She also wrote a song about Fotheringhay. I wrote a poem about it. Hers is better. 🙂