Great Things I Have Received Lately, #7

Last but definitely not least...

Thanks for sending me this lovely letter, Rachel.

It made my day.

Hello Kitty brings great magic karma into any house she enters.

Thanks for saying it was okay to post it. I think it's funny because nobody will have any clue what "thread fuckers" in your letter refers to lol. And even if I told them the secret is on this blog, they couldn't search the blog to find the answer (Google/Blogger has deactivated my Johnny Depp glass elevator).

I've been really loving your poetry lately (what's new?).

You probably get tired of hearing me compare you to another poet I love (J.K.) but your poetry does for me what hers does for me.

But it's your own voice. It's just you both share this transcendental quality where the "plainest" objects start to sing in poetry. W.C.W. was another who had that gift, of course.

But you and J.K. both are far East of him, I think. Which is a safer place for American minds to be, probably.

It's a liberating thing.

She and Philip Whalen are my two favorite Beats. The others don't even come close for me.

I loved the poems you posted in the past few days.

And the photos.

You live somewhere lovely.

Always.

Merci.