What would you ask for?
“She’d been so sure a crap liquor store would not stock French cigarettes just because you asked. The shock every time she went in, and there they were. She was used to taking the world as it was, she’d never have guessed you could get what you wanted by asking for it.”
~from Paint It [...]
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Day after day the rain comes in the evening, the windowsills wet. I eat an extra cookie, the chocolate melting bitter and sweet and sticky on my tongue, crumbs on the couch for sure, and put Sprout to sleep in his bouncy seat in the laundry room.
Yes. There with the fans, and the rhythmic satisfaction [...]
And I sit feeling everything
Today the sound of fans and wind
my heart breaking and gathering in the turning air;
a racehorse with an ankle turned, tendons like rope, continues even then
towards the line,
nostrils flared, hay soon
and cool, cool water.
The sky is spread with shreds of clouds,
the leaves are moving, fluttering, the air winnowing
around the tiny furze on the swallowtail’s wing
and [...]
A handful of small good things:
Wednesday. Watching the rain from the porch with Sprout. Newly mowed grass, in heaps. Tired. So tired, after a night awake with a restless babe. Fresh jam. Scattered thoughts. Trying to make sense with words with some people, including with my mother, and while my heart is there, and hers is, it doesn’t always come [...]
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You & Me Now
It’s night and things have maybe stopped
spinning for a while.
You walk over to me, arms bare.
Anything can happen now; everything is.
But when come to me in your red t-shirt
in the semi-dark; when you reach out,
and fold your around my shoulders,
I can feel the heat of you through the cotton,
and I can hear your heart, and
even [...]
So it begins…
Sprout is teething. Definitively. Soaked through several shirts. Chomping on everything, and he’s miserable. Utterly. Hence we are miserable utterly. Didn’t I just say it’s had been easy? What was I thinking? I was asking for it, that’s what.
Don’t you ever wonder about those apparent universal laws? When it rains, it pours… you know, that [...]
Already here
A little bit of photo booth goofiness for your Wednesday. It’s how we started our morning, at the counter and on the couch smooching and giggling, me and my two boys. (Don’t you just love Bean’s little broccoli top?)
It is already mid June. I can’t believe it really. How the time blurs once the days [...]
It’s on, skunk.
I watched the skunk leave tonight, burrowing it’s little nose into the wet grass, looking for worms. DH and I went out and blocked every hole under the dining room where it seems to live, with great big rocks.
Now my clothes reek faintly of skunk. I sit with one knee up, trying to put more [...]
Hmmmm
Skunks. Dear lord, the skunks. What to do about a skunk living potentially under one’s house? There seems to be no clever, scentless way to remove them from one’s life. Two days ago we found one IN the chicken coop eating corn off the floor at dusk. DH threw rocks at it, missed of [...]
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