My sweet birthday boy
At 4, he wanted to take the long cut home (“I don’t like short cuts”)
God gave me a bookmonster when I prayed for a bookworm.
Then Crockett Johnson’s Purple Crayon. Now Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow?
At 4, he wanted to take the long cut home (“I don’t like short cuts”)
God gave me a bookmonster when I prayed for a bookworm.
Then Crockett Johnson’s Purple Crayon. Now Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow?
In Saratoga, California, Spring is in the air
Coming to many lungs near you: Singulair
Pray, who Madoff with your leaves from last year and the years before?
Powder pink cherry blossoms on a crisp blue sky
“But, wait, where are the smells?” asks the India-returned.
“Why doesn't America smell? It’s sterile.”
“But, wait, where are the smells?” asks the India-returned.
“Why doesn't America smell? It’s sterile.”
Little wonder that the Willow weeps. The silence here is deafening. No streetlights either. It can drive you senile.
In college she coins new expressions for caustic Google chat.
“Please. Refrain, Mother. You seem to have a tendency to express my sentiments as very extreme versions of what they really are. As a fellow writer, I understand that you thrive on hyperbole. But, Reel it in, Woman!”
“Please. Refrain, Mother. You seem to have a tendency to express my sentiments as very extreme versions of what they really are. As a fellow writer, I understand that you thrive on hyperbole. But, Reel it in, Woman!”
This valley is for engineers. And their engineering spouses who offer precious tips here.
No spring in anyone's step this Spring
But pinch and crush the lavender of 2009.
Hope springs anew. May be the stalks will surge again?
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Comments
My 15-year-old went and got Pynchon, began reading it and put it away so he can begin again in mid-June. Apparently, reading has to happen without interruption. Between school, music and sports, where's the time?
My husband wants me to let you know that Saratoga is missing street lights - AND sidewalks! It's quite dangerous to drive around here at night.