How-to manual for finding a perfectly pluckable peach
Jackie Martinez #20883 on Flickr – Photo Sharing! The good peach should have some weight, a heft in your hand. She should fill your fingers. Now, exert a light tension with the pads of your fingers on the skin, a tugging apart, fingers and thumb pulling in opposite directions, just so. If she’s ready, the skin will part to reveal glistening, succulent flesh. ~Le Marquis de Bond From The Dungeon Gourmet, by Nara Malone This is posted as part of G-Man’s Friday Flash 55. See what other participants posted here.I’ve been so busy writing there’s been no time to blog lately. It’s almost peach season, so I thought I’d take…
Honeysuckle Winter
Another 3-6-9 prose poem: three verses, 69 words each not counting headings. Flickr Photo Download: Honeysuckle by wit 1. Dreaming The thermometer reads 20 degrees F. I’m huddled on the couch under blankets and quilts. The old furnace wheezes and grunts to bring the room to a balmy 59. I’m dreaming summer evenings on a winter morning. I dream the warm scents: spices, musks, summer florals. I dream the first scentI recall, that magic perfume that rose with dusk, magnified on evening mist. Afairy net to capture. 2. Deflowering Only one scent could distract me from playing hide and seek with fireflies in the darkness, pulling me toward creamy petals,…