Twittage, during which my brain was replaced by cloud--

Vignette of lake for Thaliad by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

I appear to have exhausted the contents of my head while on twitter this morning. And have nothing more to say to the world. Meanwhile, I must go finish packing up bookplates for Thaliad...

Cloud and ignorance appear to be the order of the day. I believe the dawn cloud must have crept inside my head. I believe that my brain may have been replaced by vapor.

However, I still manage to like this quote and to be astonished (California friends, watch out!) by the article it came from: "It has been said that an actuary is someone who really wanted to be an accountant but didn't have the personality for it" (Kessler, WSJ.)

Morning twittage, since I have naught else to say:

• The universe so big, so much to fathom... But children say wonderful things out of insufficient knowledge. 
• Contemplating the well of my own ignorance. It is very great and very blue. 
• Believe that refers to the scattering of sleep across the globe. Dark conspiracy of the Sopora Sleep company. @DeathZen @MrsDarkly 
• Recollecting my daughter at 5: "Have you ever heard of a five-year-old teenager?" @saladinahmed 
• Could we quit using "beyond words," Twit-buddies? Very few things are so, and usually not the ones we say are. 
• Recommending Richard Krawiec and Jacar: @jacarpress.
• Cloud that has filled the village nudges my cheek, creeps inside my mouth when I speak, breathes me. Odd, lovely morning. White smudge sun. 
• The birds drag long streaming paths through the cloud that has filled up the village. 
• The dog is trying mightily to bark to bits the cloud that used to be a yard. 
• The yard is cloud. The lake is cloud. Cloud is snared in the rose canes. Infinite confine.

Meeting me elsewhere: Excerpts from 2012 books (A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, Thaliad, The Foliate Head) at Scribd. Thaliad at Phoenicia Publishing. (Thaliad is on sale during Poetry Month. Hardcover is only available through Phoenicia, and the paperback anywhere.) See page tabs above for clips, links to reviews, and information on those brand new books plus The Throne of Psyche from 2011, and more.