SPRING

likes to come early on Galatea. Here's a picture of the garden just beginning to bloom...the hubby insists I give him credit for the landscape design sloping down the mountain so yadda (there are animal hay(na)ku on each panel of the octagon base of the fountain where Achilles and Ajax play draughts):



This is our last year of construction around la casa, but it is nice to be able to see this much progress, notwithstanding the still bare fruit trees. Hopefully, we'll do better with flowers than we've done with veggies & fruits. Until I start embarrassing moiself by counting a city slicker's harvest again, here's the latest Relished W(h)ine List:

PUBLICATIONS
Hay(na)ku for Haiti (Click HERE for more info and free book offer!):
#1: PARTICLE AND WAVE and FROM THE CHAIR by Jean Vengua
#2: On A Pyre: An Ars Poetica by Eileen R. Tabios
#3: Hay(na)ku for Haiti by Tom Beckett
#4: when the earth moves by Lars Palm
#5: After René Depestre’s “My Definition of Poetry”, as translated by Edwidge Danticat, with lines at the end by Lafcadio Hearn by John Bloomberg-Rissman
#6: Mrs. Quake by Nicole Mauro
#7: Through Having Been, Vol. 1 by William Allegrezza
#8: Through Having Been, Vol. 2 by William Allegrezza
#9: blonde topography: a terse set of tercets by steve dalachinsky
#10: Drop, Portion and Assignment by Peg Duthie
#11: As I Speed to Your Place by Amanda Laughtland

NINE TEEN HOURS (RADIO EDIT), poems by Jim Warner (very clever conceptual underpinning: hay(na)ku written during a nineteen hour plane ride between the Philippines and U.S. Good for chapbookpublisher.com for yanking this out of the author!)

MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK, poems by Logan Ryan Smith (very clever music from a fallen angel)

GENJI MONOGATARI, poems by Mark Young (freshly clever and musical take on intertextual reading)

NTST: THE COLLECTED PWOERMDS OF GEOF HUTH (a freshly rolicking read)

LETTERS TO AN ALBATROSS, poems by Anita Mohan (a freshly auspicious debut)

I WAS THE JUKEBOX, poems by Sandra Beasley (the muscular confidence underlying these poems are a fresh antidote to the more common self-deprecation found in contemporary poems)

HER FRIENDS DOWN AT THE FRENCH CAFE HAD NO ENGLISH WORDS FOR ME, poems by Patrick James Dunagan and visual art by Jason Grabowski (lovely intimacy)

MORTAL, EVERLASTING, poems by Jeffrey Levine

THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS, poems by Bern Mulvey

FATA MORGANA, poems by Reginald Shepherd

MAINSTREAM, poems by Michael Magee

THE IT-DOESN'T-MATTER SUIT, children's story by Sylvia Plath, Illustrated by Rotraut Susanne Berner

TOUCHING THE VOID: THE TRUE STORY OF ONE MAN'S MIRACULOUS SURVIVAL, memoir by Joe Simpson

THE INNOCENT, novel by Harlan Coben

TELL NO ONE, novel by Harlan Coben

THE WOODS, novel by Harlan Coben

FIFTY GRAND, novel by Adrian McKinty

THE DEAD YARD, novel by Adrian McKinty

DEATH MATCH, novel by Lincoln Child

HOSTAGE, novel by Robert Crais

L.A. REQUIEM, novel by Robert Crais

CHASING DARKNESS, novel by Robert Crais

THE FORGOTTEN MAN, novel by Robert Crais

KILLER INSTINCT, novel by Joseph Finder

AWAKENING, novel by S.J. Bolton


WINES
2006 Peter Michael Chardonnay "La Carriere"
2006 Long Meadow "house red" cabernet blend
Veuve Cliquot Brut
2005 Luce Abbey cabernet
1998 Torbreck "Descendant"
1994 Penfolds Bin 707 cabernet
____ Penfolds Dawson's Creek shiraz-cabernet blend