Fever

I've been away from this blog because...I had a bit of reading to do and meetings to go to; then I was sick with the flu for a week. One moment I thought I'd got a heatstroke; the next I was lying face down in my bed. Now I'm still tired. Other things happened, but it's nothing I'd want to blog about here.

Some days ago I had this flash story 'The Wind Is Going To Take You' up at TrainWrite. I wrote it specifically for this tumblr zine. I had no idea what the story was going to be, so I drew these railroad tracks on a piece of paper, and a balloon, and then the rest followed.

I also posted 'Focus', published in MiCrow in June, at Fictionaut. Parts of the story were based on this wacky bike safety movie 'One Got Fat' (1963) directed by Dale Jennings, and set to 'Everything You Do Is A Balloon' by Boards of Canada in this video.

I have no more words for you or myself for now. Here's a poem from the poetry collection I just finished reading, Jeni Couzyn's In The Skin House.


You entered the muscles with a paring knife
like a strong old woman
peeling potatoes.
You entered the veins with a wire brush.
Because I have prepared for you all year
clearing the builder's rubble
from what I called
my house --
welcome.