Posted by Barely Knit Together on Dec 17, 2009 in
Creative Nonfiction,
Writing
You might, one night, find yourself buying a mango outside a bodega in the West Village after a long night spent listening to music with a pianist, in the basement of a bring-your-own bottle jazz club.
Perhaps it is almost dawn, and your favorite food in the world is a mango, and the pianist has never [...]
Tags: jazz, mangoes, nyc, prose poem, summer
Posted by Barely Knit Together on May 7, 2009 in
Writing
I was supposed to take time off, but I give up – I can’t stop myself. I have to tell you something.
I want to tell you what summer tastes like here, what its sounds are and how it wraps itself around you in a heady fabric of humidity and flowery fog.
I wasn’t outside tonight for [...]
Tags: dreams, humid, moonshine, summer, tree frogs, virginia
Posted by Barely Knit Together on Apr 29, 2009 in
Wordless Wednesday
I thought you might like to know what I do in my spare time, like when I’m not tickling unruly children into submission or washing away all thought of my stressful life with boxes of wine.
I fish animal skeletons out of creeks.
This was a deer who made his untimely exit not quite long enough ago [...]
Tags: blue ridge parkway, god i love living in the south, nature, summer, Wordless Wednesday