Monday, December 09, 2002

Where the name "LoveSettlement" comes from

I've had a website for my poetry for a couple years now. It's also called LoveSettlement.

I title the notebooks in which I write poems. One I titled "Love", the subsequent I titled "Settlement"; when time came to set up the site I already had these two nice titles, and, heck, don't they go great together?

My guy is a lawyer and he immediately thought of a legal settlement, thought the idea of a "LoveSettlement" not attractive. Tho' I did think of that, I'm more inclined to the settlement in the wilderness, thus "LoveSettlement" is a place love sets up housekeeping. Surrounded by hostile forces? Surrounded by other forces, some hostile. A new place. But I don't mind there being less hopeful meanings.

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