[booklog 2006]

39. small.spiral.notebook, volume 3, issue 1. some of the writing is good, some is rough but still interesting, and some of it was mostly just rough, or didn't get to me much. i picked it up in Portland, at the tail end of wandering through Powell's, from a rack of other literary magazines, because i liked the title and because of the photograph of a wrought-iron gate on the cover. i flipped it open and started reading in the middle of one story. the first paragraph i read...resonated hard, i guess, with wherever my mind was at just that moment. it reached out and caught me, more strongly than any little scrap of writing i've come across in awhile. l_stboy looked at it and mentioned that the author (Aimee Pokwatka) is in the same program as tyratae at Syracuse, so i picked up the glossy little thing and took it home.
( so, then, here's that bit. )