When I Was A Cat, And You Were A Raven
A Poem for Mr. G.
I sat in a tree with you
When I was a cat
And you were a raven
And you took me in your firm claws
And said
It’s time for us to go
And so in to the inky black night
we went.
I
Hanging there
The warm night air
passing through my [...]

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It was a full moon on the 11th, we so hope you stopped and looked up. The winter here has no dusk, one moment it is day, the next, night. The backyard was coloured a pale moony blue with indigo veins of shadows from the tress. We stood by our attic window enjoying the view [...]

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Rany Ly, is our friend. She’s so busy we never see her, she emails us at four in the morning and is working. We’ve known her forever and think she is the coolest person ever. We haven’t featured her until now as she is so super modest about what she does you never notice until [...]

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A small green bird lands on the window ledge of a lovely apartment in Osaka-city. The west facing window uncharacteristically is left open and the tiny bird, following the trail of early summer light hops in the apartment and on to the blond pine wooden floor. The room smells of oranges.
The bird hops gingerly across [...]

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Our very magical, not to mention lovely web and book designer Gillian Holmes now sells her haunted festive cards at Cafe Press. Please pay her a visit!

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Our favourite aunt lives in France. Our Aunt Charlotte. We are allowed to call her our favourite aunt without offending anyone as she is our only aunt. Both our parents were only children, so she is actually our great-aunt; she is our father’s mother’s sister. (breeding is low on list of uses for our cells [...]

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“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.”
- From Nadja by Andre Breton.

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Well, even if the New Yorker Poetry Editor doesn’t like Alice’s poem, we still do…
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From: “Poetry, TNY”
Date: January 2, 2009 12:21:56 PM GMT-05:00
To: “House of Pomegranates” 
Subject: RE: A poem by Alice Pomegranate
We regret that we are unable to use the enclosed material. Thank you for giving us theopportunity to consider it.
The Editors
—–Original Message—–
From: House [...]

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