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Hmm, what’s this odd brick-looking thing in plastic wrap?
*turns it over*
Wait... I vaguely remember Waccamaw stores... Didn’t they go bankrupt a while back?
So... exactly how old is this block of floral foam?
Hint: It used to be green.
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"Shepherds Take Warning" in Waccamaw
My partner Sarah's awesome short story "Shepherds Take Warning" has just been published online today in the new issue of Waccamaw: A Journal of Contemporary Literature! It's one of my very favorite stories she's written. It's got skywriting, tornadoes, impending danger, laundry irons, revivals, and more! Congratulations darlin'!
Read it HERE!
Meditative Weekend of Poetry: Lisa Hammond
You are my second husband. We parse this sentence. A second is short, a sixtieth of a minute. A second comes after the first. Second constitutes the number two in a sequence. I already broke my word once. Oh my dear, you are not secondary, lower, subordinate, subsidiary, lesser, inferior. I brought the children with me, most of the furniture in our new house. Second in command? No. I like seconding your motions. To formally support or endorse. Backup, encourage. More promising. Second base? Not far enough. Leap second. Second future. Second future tense, obsolete. I will have finished by tomorrow, we read, I shall have gone by then. A grammar to mark the future. Second language. Second nature, as if natural or instinctive. You like second self, n. a friend who agrees absolutely with one’s tastes and opinions, or for whose welfare one cares as much as for one’s own. After Latin alter idem. We linger over second helpings. Second breakfast. Second honeymoon. You say, it looks more French, the further we scroll. Even second mortgage sounds good now. The word begins to blur. Francis Bacon, 1597. It is a good precept generally in seconding another: yet to adde somewhat of ones owne. A grammar of prediction. We suppose. We second.
(”Second”, Waccamaw #21 Fall 2018)
(Suggestions: Samuel Coleridge said there were two types of imagination: a primary imagination which simply took in sensory material and a secondary imagination that transformed it. He said the secondary imagination was that of the artist. It’s not always best for reality. To filter reality through yourself and process it out as a product can create both beauty and horror. On one level, I find this poem sickeningly celebratory. The narrator sings praises of the new relationship, takes the phrase “second husband” with all of its potentially pejorative designations and spins something new and promising. There’s nothing really revelatory in this. Yet, the poem also has a sinister layer. The other voice signified by the italicized lines. The poem begins slightly off-kilter: “A second comes after the first. Second constitutes number two in a sequence. I already broke my word once.” The italicized voice is quick to clarify the repetition of the word “second” and it does so in a quantitative manner. There are more of these throughout the poem. Although the narrator seems to support the partner with phrases in the beginnings (”Second in command? No. I like seconding your motions.”), the definition of “second” shifts. Later, “After Latin alter idem. We linger over second helpings.”. Lingering over second helpings could imply being full but also distaste, something that one desired in the past but now has proved distasteful in the present moment. A moment predicted much earlier by the line “Second future tense, obsolete”. In other words, a possible future, a conditional future that was dismissed in favor of other more palatable futures. The last line on first reading was something benignly hopeful that, upon additional readings I find wickedly dark: “A grammar of prediction. We suppose. We second.” I like the uncertainty that the last lines convey. This poem isn’t a love letter (or isn’t only a love letter) as I’d initially thought. It is a poetic pre-nuptial, spilling reality in subtle tones. Yes, we’re in love and married...but we could also be in the midst of a continuing sequence of such events. I love this.)
Celebrating our Native American heritage. #besda_qc2018 #besd2018 #spauldingfamily #waccamaw #siouxian #cherokee (at Charlotte Marriott City Center)
My second grader! One down, one to go. #secondgrade #thebusissoearly #school #waccamaw #baby2 (at Conway, South Carolina)
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Cypress Tree Waccamaw River Pawleys Island South Carolina
Just hanging with the local gators. . . . . #waccamaw #waccamawriver #gators #turtles #fishing #southcarolinaliving #southcarolina #conway #myrtlebeach #waccamawwildlifepreserve #jtoddlanding #calm #bestill (at Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge)
March 2017 Sunset over the Waccamaw River, Pawleys Island, South Carolina.
