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[deebrisbyfish]

Typos are, have been, and will seemingly ALWAYS be my Acheles heal. I mean, Achilles heel. Dagnabbit! Now that the holiday storyline is over, the strip will be returning to a once-a-week schedule... at least while I suss out how much extra work doing these in color will take. lol. And remember, to see this strip in FULL COLOR, become a backer at PATREON! Woot!

[swolfmoon]

I learned something new! Thank you, Hank Green!

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

As we all know, to show possession in standard written English, you add an apostrophe (') and an S. Thor's hammer, cat's paw, men's restroom. But I've been very confused lately as to how this applies to words that already end in S. For example, I've seen both Hercules' labors and Hercules's labors. To save you the trouble of looking it up yourselves, here's the AP Style way to do it: SINGULAR COMMON NOUNS ENDING IN S: - Add ’s: the virus’s reach, the virus’s spread SINGULAR PROPER NAMES ENDING IN S: - Use only an apostrophe: Dickens' novels, Hercules' labors, Kansas' schools.

[jhsharman]

"Dis-Missile"

[april-is]

April 17, 2026: "God-With-Us", Reginald Shepherd

"God-With-Us" Reginald Shepherd

after Jean Valentine

What will I call you when you are gone? How will I know your name? Little star, reflection on the Sea of Galilee, a lantern in the wood, half-hid, half-seen? reflecting on what can’t be touched, be known? And the sheen of milk across the sky, the galaxy poured out like me, true sky, false dawn, and a young woman’s nipple, star of milk, star of a nursing child’s mouth, my child, my lord, whoever you may be today, tonight which will not end, a cup passed to me, from which I may or may not drink, half-empty star, still asleep by now? And your small body, Emmanuel, (how small my heart to fit inside yours) lie there, pearled, asleep… How I want to believe. (a pearl, an irritant).

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This was the last poem Reginald Shepherd wrote, from the hospital, about two weeks before his 2008 death. The quotation marks in the title complicate it in the best way, I think. It's not necessarily something he's saying; it's an idea he's talking about. (Or that's my guess, anyway.)

One possible reference: God With Us was written on the belt buckles of German soldiers going into battle in World War I. (As noted by his partner Robert Philen in the foreword to the posthumously published Red Clay Weather.)

+ Previously shared: Tantalus in May, Reginald Shepherd

Feast:

2025: I Have a Time Machine, Brenda Shaughnessy 2024: You Belong to the World, Carrie Fountain 2023: Mammogram Call Back with Ultra Sound, Ellen Bass 2022: Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness, Franny Choi 2021: Weather, Claudia Rankine 2020: The Understudy, Bridget Lowe 2019: Against Dying, Kaveh Akbar 2018: Close Out Sale, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz 2017: Things That Have Changed Since You Died, Laura Kasischke 2016: Percy, Waiting for Ricky, Mary Oliver 2015: My Heart, Kim Addonizio 2014: My Skeleton, Jane Hirshfield 2013: Catch a Body, Oliver Bendorf 2012: No, Mark Doty 2011: from Narrative: Ali, Elizabeth Alexander 2010: Baseball Canto, Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2009: Nothing but winter in my cup, Alice George 2008: Poppies in October, Sylvia Plath 2007: I Imagine The Gods, Jack Gilbert 2006: An Offer Received In This Morning’s Mail, Amy Gerstler 2005: The Last Poem In The World, Hayden Carruth

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