The NEW ISSUE of ABLE MUSE, Print Editon (Number 13) - Summer 2012, has just been released, with order/subscription information (for print & Kindle editions), with online excerpts at: www.AbleMuse.com. The digital edition of the complete issue (available to the print edition subscribers only), is also available now online at www.ablemuse.com.

WITH THE 2011 ABLE MUSE WRITE PRIZE FOR POETRY —
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Dear Eratosphereans,

We're being forced to move - that is, move the server and all the data. To explain what's going on in layman's terms, the bigger hosting company that's just acquired the one that had been hosting the server wants to shut down the facilities they've just acquired: they have handed out an eviction notice to transfer everything over to their own facilities proper in a month or so, or else.... The problem is that they're not lifting a finger to help so, I'm completely...

As I zig-zag behind the scattered sheep, to group them into a flock, steer them my desired way, I wonder - is this really a sensible activity for an untrained human? One person and his dog would take minutes to get the sheep from where they are to where they are wanted. It takes me an hour.

Multi-tasking, the body working, the brain concerned with something else, is not an option. Sunday morning I brooded on why T.S. Eliot decided that it should be 'lilacs' that were forced...

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Yes, you read the title correctly. I initially thought that GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum made for an attractive candidate, which I made a note of a few weeks ago when I wrote here "Rick Santorum for President?" That was after his speech in Iowa where he spoke about his working class upbringing and his immigrant coalminer grandfather's large hands as he lay in his casket (Santorum often...