greedily by the river
it could leave us hanging
or help us lose--
then we're all swimmers
reaching away, trying to speak
until we choose
the suck-slide of undertow
waves keep a beat--like trauma
go ahead, tell me
how many people we are
allowed to be before any ending
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Didn't go to book club today--just didn't feel it was ok to be indoors with other people. The book was Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry--I found it both alarming and twee and can't tell yet if I liked it.
Also in OMG: L and T stocked us up on food--soup, pierogies, grape leaves, chicken salad... I'll not need to cook for days.
Pic: A very swollen Red Cedar with Big A.
5 comments:
I really like the last stanza.
Hope you're recovering. We're all currently waiting to see if we'll get sick, too, since North brought covid home from camp.
I almost gave up on Lessons in Chemistry, but the dog character kept me going. I did like it, in the end, but I found the first part so upsetting I almost put it down.
Oh, noooooooo, StephLove! I'm so sorry! North is such a diligent masker and everything too.
"Dog character!" Same, Nicole!
I liked Lessons in Chemistry, but wow is the book cover misleading. I thought it was going to be a lighthearted romp and there was just so much violence and misogyny and I think this is a problem on the part of the publisher!
Hope you are feeling well!
Nice picture.
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