Currently Reading: Outside

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13 things to read on deck, literally. I’ll sample from page 42 of each, for Douglas Adams’s sake.

1. Ottawa Woman, a new print monthly newspaper, March issue, 20 pages with a feature on Cornerstone Shelter. p. 2 by Janice Clarkson:
   

   […]providing encouragement and a sense of community to women who are going through a very difficult time in their lives. The team helps women work on goal plans, set appointment, make meals, help with household duties or plan special activities.

2. Harper’s Magazine, April issue, p. 42, article by Matthew Power,
   

   After the news of artemisinin’s failure broke, the Gates Foundation made an emergency dispersement of $22 million to the WHO for a two-year Malaria containment project […]

3. Frogpond, vol 35:1, 2012 although a haiku journal, this issue has a broad retrospective of and by Penny Harter, p. 42
   

   I believe we are all much more than we consciously know. I am fascinated with the possibilities of parallel and/or multiple universes, multiple dimensions[…]

4. Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poem to Memorize, edited by John Hollander, from p. 42 Paul Laurence Dunbar When Malindy Sings
   

   G’way an’ quit dat noise, Miss Lucy –
   Put dat music book away;
   What’s de use to keep on tryin’
   Ef you practise twell you’re gray,[…]

5. Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami, century-old love poems by Akiko Yosano has no page numbers so tanka #42
   

   How would I feel
   If he should say,
   “Three hundred miles
   have I come–
   This loneliness too much to bear”?

6. Food & Wine magazine, April 2012, p 42 is where to eat in Napa Valley which seems to be by Megan Krigbaum,
   

   […] Kollar Chocolates: He creates beautiful truffles in flavours like passion fruit and fennel pollen, and a surprisingly savory white chocolate poppy-seed-and-saffron bar.

7. The Obvious Flap by Gary Barwin and Gregory Betts, p. 42
   

   TAKE IT TAKE AWAY

8. Charlotte Perriand: A Life of Creation p. 42 is during the 10 days she spent travelling alone in Centosoyouz, 1931 on meeting a soldier who spoke French and could translate
   

   […]the slogans being blasted out over the loudspeakers, as well as in the signs in the front windows: “For one torn sock you are entitled to one new sock.” “You are entitled to one boot at a time.”

9. Roses Love Garlic: Secrets of Companion Planting with Flowers by Louise Riotte
   

   Bayberry (Myrica pennsylvanica), beloved of early Americans for candle making, will not bear its berries unless staminate and pistillate forms keep company together.

10. Twentieth Century Verse: An Anthology by Ira Dilworth, 1945, page 42 brings up to Laurence Binyon’s The Sirens
    

    The friendly human voices, smell of dew and dusty,
    And generations of men asleep in the old earth.

11. Sincerest Flatteries by Kurt Brown is 36 pages so I’ll pinhole from page 24, his take on/tribute to Thomas Lux and the Asian Carp,
    

    […]slimy vacuums eating 5 times their weight
    each day, gluttons on the fish world.
    Look how they hurl themselves[…]

12. Incitements by Sean Howard, p. 42,
    

    VIII
    Back-
    wash, salt mea
    dow. All notes marg-
    inal. Science found-
    ation? Light’s key
    on the rocks. Sponge-
    beds, vases hatch-
    ing. Kept minutes. Art-
    iculate stars. 5 petals[…]

13. Shikibu Shuffle by Andrew Burke and Phil Hall, (aboveground, March 2012) has no 42nd page so from poem #2
    

    Don’t play what’s there
    play what’s not there
    a Chinese dragon of smoke
    wearing my dead friend’s clothes
    above the marina

[Thirteen Thursday]