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Mark Strand insomnia poem: https://hocopolitso.org/2020/11/14/poetry-moment-mark-strand-was-feeling-anxious/

Ogden Nash: https://www.best-poems.net/ogden_nash/i_do_i_will_i_have.html "marriage is a legal and religious alliance entered
into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a
woman who can't sleep with the window open."

W.H. Auden, The More Loving One
https://poets.org/poem/more-loving-one

Thomas Lux, early collections:
Memory's handgrenade. Cambridge, Mass.: Pym-Randall. 1972. (Can't find)
https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-1972/rev-memorys-handgrenade-thomas-lux
( Titles )
The glassblower's breath. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland State University Poetry Center. 1976.
( Titles )

Louise Gluck wrote two poems called Solstice decades apart and I am furious:
from Firstborn (Part III: Cottonmouth Country): “Solstice” pairs place and time, whipping at the end from summer to winter’s icy sting
And the poem itself
June's edge. The sun
Turns kind. Birds wallow in the sob of pure air,
Crated from the coast...Un-
real. Unreal. I see the cure

Dissolving on the screen. Outside, dozing
In its sty, the neighbor's offspring
Sucks its stuffed monster, given
Time. And now the end begins:

Packaged words. He purrs his need again.
The rest is empty. Stoned, stone-
blind she totters to the lock
Through webs of diapers. It is Christmas on the clock,

A year's precise,
Terrible ascent, climaxed in ice.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Character #1: Unintentionally sexy, succubus librarian
40s, any race, curvy or a generally round appearance, quiet but intelligent, think veela issues
Clothes keep going rogue on her: riding up, settling down, unbuttoning

possibilities:
Sarah Paulson, http://ectype.insanejournal.com/33349.html probably 43
Audra McDonald, http://asylums.insanejournal.com/capseroo/184545.html#cutid1 (no icons yet), 49
Christina Hendricks, http://ectype.insanejournal.com/28725.html, 42?
Taraji P Henson, there's bound to be icons of her but they might all be angry cop or vengeful diva


Not at all right but look at her face, I just want to remember it: http://lulamae.insanejournal.com/tag/michaela+watkins


Character #2: Jackalope!
30ish, dude, NOT named Jack and ESPECIALLY not Jack Lopez
Matt Barr from Sleepy Hollow! http://backstreets.insanejournal.com/32326.html

http://brightstarmods.insanejournal.com

Character 1
Jesse Wyrzykowski
PB: Mark Hamill
Some sort of administrator? Or is he a resident, retired in Snowcap after years of Some Stupid Job
Oh no what if he's a tour guide? He's sure dramatic enough for it. Or maybe he's in HR, that would be fairly hilarious.
DOES NOT LIKE TV
Would kinda like a Polish name because I never do that and I'm weirdly into German names but LOOKIE HERE (it's pronounced "yezh" but it still amuses me)
Spiny Norman gif and apparently he collects cacti now and gives them names like Katie and Caractacus
generally pretty reasonable but DRAMATIC HAND GESTURES
has a brother and a sister, he's a middle child. brother/sister in jail for something Not Great but not recent
From Wisconsin, Eau Claire or Appleton maybe, went to IL or NE for school (IL closer but NE might be a better fit)
dad jokes rad jokes


Character 2
Lani/Leilani Mori
PB: Jolene Purdy
She might be medical or a potioneer, pretty sure she's a potioneer
rockin' the winged eyeliner
Rather likes TV actually
freaking Hawaiian, what am I stupid, of course she's Hawaiian -- that is, she's japanese but she's from hawaii
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2009/10/11/lifestyle/japans-top-100-most-common-family-names/#.XEvLcVxKjIU
three sisters, no brothers
probably went to Mount Olympus (or maybe the CA school) but they only take boarders starting at 6th grade and that'd be a long way to take kids for day school.
Mirage, Potions Today, Babblewyck Park, Dartford Devils, Fashion Plate, Elysium, Portent, Niffit

April 78 Poetry magazine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=22
Leaving Arles: light, color, France, travel
"The brown and purple light of Arles is still around our hands. And they carry more than this: The last and sometimes secret gifts a traveler must declare: a grocer's list, some foreign coins, a magazine in French, the pain of knowing places once, and faces without names."
Syntheses of Love https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=24
Hatred: "Even love does not consume us quite so thoroughly" "there is a kind of glory in anything done to extremes"
"seeming indifference, colder than hate"
Hommage to Tristan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=26
"In what incalculable metal are your fingers inlaid?"
"At first I didn't think
He knew what he was doing,
But I was wrong;
He knew exactly what he was doing."
The Islands: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=30
Shall we two settle there?
We talk, me at the tiller,
you with your gaze set
across the gray water.
And shall we live forever?
The Childhood of Homer https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=32
"as if the heart, as if the sea"
"The goddess on the napkinned beach
in dancing said, 'You must know what
you chiefly want. You must want me.'"
The Muse of Satire: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=34
"In time, perfected so she never walks again, she'll burn your buildings down."
Superbia: A Triumph with no Train: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=35
"For each act there is an onset, for each sin, the first descent."
"But he remembered nothing wholly trivial."

Dean Thomas' father.

PB: Daniel Anthony from Sarah Jane Adventures
http://olddougieroleplays.tumblr.com/post/46453808973/daniel-anthony-gif-hunt
http://noravalkrie.tumblr.com/post/43238846422/gif-hunt-daniel-anthony

Shacklebolt, but what's the first name? Something Very British? Stanley Shacklebolt?
...oh no
that would mean dean's father is stanley

stan.
lee.
oh no

Who: Everyone invited, sorry we never sent IC invites, it will basically be practically everyone since it's thrown by two Prides and a Magpie (medic).
What: Housewarming! Plus Christmas Hogmanay! Plus Joy's (super-belated) birthday!
When: 29 December, evening
Where: The Cattery, Paisley
Warnings: TBD

( A triple-purpose party! )

Possible Cattery images:
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4267179/ (outside)
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4236012/ (sitting room, kitchen, conservatory)
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4278352/ (sitting room, dining room)
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4253281/
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4218430/
https://www.onthemarket.com/details/4230688/ (basically anything)