Bravo! Today I went out and bought an external hard drive enclosure. I had an old 40gb drive I had from like 2000 to 2004 that had just one day died. Of course, I’d never backed it up very seriously, so I lost some unknown number of poems, stories, whatever – those that I hadn’t printed out. I’d done a pretty thorough recovery with the print outs I’d had, but you can never know what else had existed only digitally – except for perhaps one you remembered, but not well enough to re-create… always thinking it would be great if you could just get at that data.
notes from summer 2015
and there in my heart is still love, ugly and mistreated and malnourished with jagged edges and hard seams, it is still love, a wretched stone that pushes my belly out in lonely protuberance. I drown it in beer and wine and sometimes gin and whiskey. I wash it, but it never becomes beautiful, it … Read morenotes from summer 2015