Knowing You
… How do I know you? I have my own way.I know you by height and width and shapeThat negative space outline your body fillsI know you by the way your hair goes to curls in the rain Misbehaving brown corkscrews shot with goldAnd by the lilt your tongue gives certain vowels when you’re arousedOr the rickety clack your tone takes when you’re annoyedI know you by the company you keepRagged men with ragged soulsI know you by the places you hauntJunkyards of lost causes that you find new uses forI can’t wax poetic about a blue-eyed devil or patrician nose or chiseled jawI can’t picture a faceBut I know you…
- Carry On Tuesday, death, family, Fiction, finish, flash, Flash Fiction, hope, lifeline, Love, marriage, Poetry, start, Three Word Wednesday, timeline
Timelines
Lines |shared via CC license by laprimadonna on Flickr – Photo Sharing! 1. Okra When I think of how life used to be, the okra summer comes to mind. There was a big crop the year I turned three and a bumper crop of new rules to learn, as there is with every year of growing. Even though I know nothing that shade of green can taste remotely pleasant, I was not allowed to say so. Even though I didn’t eat hairy food or green food or slimy food, and even though okra fit all three of those categories, I had to eat it or no one could have ice…
- Carry On Tuesday, lake, Love, nature, Poetry, rainmaking, Three Word Wednesday, threesome, water cycle
Rain Making
I’m combining two prompts this week (didn’t finish this in time to post it yesterday and I needed something more to make this work, like the 3 words from Three Word Wednesday!) so I made it a little longer than usual. We’re closing in on drought conditions here, and I thought I might try to tease a little rain from the clouds. Three Word Wednesday words are: bait, jump, victim This Week’s Carry On Tuesday Prompt is from the first line of the 2008 novelThe Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt Lightning first, then the thunder. And in between the two…….. The Lake Liquid Light glides over her skin.She shivers,…