UPDATE ON RELISHES

Back to my latest Recently Relished W(h)ine List with its increasingly embarrassing "harvests":

WINTER HARVEST:
500 pounds of olives (but sadly went all to compost due to City Slicker's ignorance of pressing olives for oil within 24 hours of being picked)
35 pounds of honey (still waiting to be jarred as soon as we can, ahem, thaw it out ... actually, don't ask)
18 persimmons
101 Meyer lemons
11 oranges
1 head of red lettuce
3 heads of green lettuce


PUBLICATIONS
PETALS, EMBLEMS, poems by Lynn Behrendt (contains those pleasantly unexpected ooomphs. Like, this beginning to the poem "Afterword": "wheel of / unconstruable / beginning. // spoke // ..." Love that purrfect first stanza's imagery, even as I relish the pun of wheel-spoke vs past-tense-speak)

EXPEDITIONS by Pamela Jean de Oliveira-Smith (don't know this poet; can't remember how I got this book. but really like it)

OPEN CLOSED OPEN, poems by Yehuda Amichai

MARS, poems by Norma Cole

SONATA MULATTICA, poems and a play by Rita Dove

ENGLISH FRAGMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL, poems by Martin Corless-Smith

A THIRST THAT'S PARTLY MINE, poems by Liz Ahl

ISHMAEL AMONG THE BUSHES, poems by William Allegrezza

GUTTER CATHOLIC LOVE SONG, poem by Joseph Wood

VICTORY, poetry/film text/conceptual et by Clarice Waldman

THE GOD OF INDETERMINACY, poems by Sandra McPherson

excerpts from the scores of PERMEABLE STRUCTURES: A PERFORMANCE ESSAY IN STEREO by Laura Elrick

from NOTHING TO SAY, poetry by Ann Lauterbach

PASSAGE THROUGH INDIA: AN EXPANDED AND ILLUSTRATED EDITION by Gary Snyder

RAIN, O'ER ME, short short by Rachael Goetzke

YELLOWFIELD, literary/arts journal cum provocation "collated" by Edric Mesmer

MUNYORI Literary Journal, Ed. Emmanuel Sigauke (enjoyed this read!)

RICHARD TSAO (Nam Wan) art exhibition monograph

THE ATHENA PROJECT, novel by Brad Thor

EDGE, novel by Jeffery Deaver

NIGHT SHIELD, novel by Nora Roberts

TEXAS! CHASE, novel by Sandra Brown

TAILOR-MADE BRIDE, novel by Karen Witemeyer


WINES
2003 Loan Shiraz
Bistro Don Giovanni house cabernet
1985 Solaia
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