Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra@wandering.shop

aaah it's freezing (by which I mean it's twenty-seven degrees celsius)

I did an interview http://www.bigecho.org/vajra-chandrasekera-interview It's been a while and I always forget that I actually like doing interview-type stuff. Though also I worry that I talk too much in them. Always with the having too many things to say.

Really glad that Krish Raghav's music newsletter is back.
https://tinyletter.com/krishraghav

Ȟe is a mountain as hé is a horn that comes from a shift in the river, throat to mouth. Followed by sápa, a kind of black sleek in the rise of both.
— from “Ȟe Sápa, One” by Layli Long Soldier
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/he-sapa-one

If there’s pee on the seat it’s my pee,
battery’s dead I killed it, canary at the bottom
of the cage I bury it, like God tromping the sky
in his undershirt carrying his brass spittoon
— from “Song in My Heart” by Dianne Seuss
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/53141/song-in-my-heart#poem

That the moon causes tides
seems too witchy to be science.
The sea purging sheet iron,
jeans, a jewel-eyed
alabaster goat.
— from Kaveh Akbar’s “Exciting the Canvas”
https://aprweb.org/poems/exciting-the-canvas

update: I don't hate it, but that makes me feel old

oh no there's an ubuntu update I'm going to hate it aren't I

on the plus (?) side I've discovered that it's much easier to do promo as an editor than it is as a writer

I've been uncharacteristically active on birbsite this week and it's weird

TIL that the American pronunciation of "Maldives" is "mall dives" and I am still kind of processing that

psa monitor lizards are freaky and there are too many of them in this neighbourhood

it doesn't actually change everything but it's still nice. also hi shop, I joined months ago and (apparently) don't talk much. I should follow more of you so my feed's not so static.