more than a minute to learn how to post a new thread... only two olives remain very little vodka, plenty of vermouth, and gin's on the grocery list; don't know when I'll be out again... limewire wire lime wire... a poem on its own slowing the system five windows, word, realplayer; smilies on the right: a huge distraction unnecessary When did spell-check become a part of this? back in the day I... picked peppers, pimentos, called them capsicums what do I know? Close current tag? Close all tags? I'm getting old. Content though so... Woo!
KittenX, always a treat for m'tongue, Last Meal mmm'lovely... milk and wine, traitors attract... ! if anyone feels cheated by the martini... I've picked apples too... (best job ever, apple-picking) from NPR... Apples by Grace Schulman... Rain hazes a street cart's green umbrella but not its apples, heaped in paper cartons, dry under cling film. The apple man, who shirrs his mouth as though eating tart fruit, exhibits four like racehorses at auction: Blacktwig, Holland, Crimson King, Salome. I tried one and its cold grain jolted memory: a hill where meager apples fell so bruised that locals wondered why we scooped them up, my friend and I, in matching navy blazers. One bite and I heard her laughter toll, free as school's out, her face flushed in late sun. I asked the apple merchant for another, jaunty as Cezanne's still-life reds and yellows, having more life than stillness, telling us, uncut, unpeeled, they are not for the feast but for themselves, and building strength to fly at any moment, leap from a skewed bowl, whirl in the air, and roll off a tilted table. Fruit-stand vendor, master of Northern Spies, let a loose apple teach me how to spin at random, burn in light and rave in shadows. Bring me a Winesap like the one Eve tasted, savored and shared, and asked for more. No fool, she knew that beauty strikes just once, hard, never in comfort. For that bitter fruit, tasting of earth and song, I'd risk exile. The air is bland here. I would forfeit mist for hail, put on a robe of dandelions, and run out, broken, to weep and curse — for joy.
