George Ilsley

i just read his flash in Event (volume 35, issue 2), "Basket Will Always Be Basket (Gertrude Stein , Paris, 1946)" and i am in love with it. interestingly it is presented as poetry.

i want to write to him and tell him that i am in love with his flash / prosepoem. maybe i will.

my second resolution. and it isn't even new year's eve yet. okay, here it is: if i read something that i love love love i will write an email to the author. (within limit, of course. i don't think i will ever write to margaret atwood, though she says, in her interveiws, that many write to her and she loves the feedback. but this i just can't.) i won't be embarrassed. what's the worst that can happen? nothing, really. and i'd love if someone wrote to me after reading one of my flashes. fat chance.

though while i was still reading for Vestal (i resigned as i kept having log-in problems due to me being on baffin and some server timing out on me before reaching the needed hop, whatever this means) i received a submission from someone who read healing sweetness and loved it and decided to sub to vestal because of that. or maybe he / she was sucking up. which is more likely, of course.