The book is on its way! I hope you like it. Btw, do you have a connection to Springdale, WA? I looked you up in the white pages and it says you do. Could that be true? I spent the first four months of my life there. It's also Jess Walter and Sherman Alexie country.
Ah the luscious red ripe apples 🍎 harvest under blouses tucked away just ripened. The night light dims now reflections as you say, on scraps of paper burned or lost in Hill’s mortar of iniquity stirred with pestle a few tender times with fingers pointing the way to memories lane. I wonder writing down temptations should they be saved?
“As always, should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self destruct in 5 seconds”
Thank you for your comment, Rachel. I'm not aware of anything I've done that might prevent restacking, although I have had instances where I can't restack with a quote. When that happens, I copy of text I want to restack with the post and select the "Restack with a note" option.
Thank you for restacking this one, @Chen Rafaeli
Job Interview for Position of Poet
Interviewer: Tell us about your background.
Applicant: I fell in love early. And often.
Interviewer: You're hired.
Early, often, often unrequited
Interviewer: You've got the job, don't oversell it.
Let us compare catastrophes of the heart. Btw I have a book for you if you'll send me a mailing address. And thank you!
I sent an email with the address. Thank You!
The book is on its way! I hope you like it. Btw, do you have a connection to Springdale, WA? I looked you up in the white pages and it says you do. Could that be true? I spent the first four months of my life there. It's also Jess Walter and Sherman Alexie country.
Amen to that.
Thanks for stopping by to read this, Mary!
Haha
No doubt why your readership has grown. Brilliant!
Ah the luscious red ripe apples 🍎 harvest under blouses tucked away just ripened. The night light dims now reflections as you say, on scraps of paper burned or lost in Hill’s mortar of iniquity stirred with pestle a few tender times with fingers pointing the way to memories lane. I wonder writing down temptations should they be saved?
Yes. Save them until the regrets turn into poems.
Good advice.
The trail not followed;
Break off a limb
Brush away the tracks
Indians 1 and cowboys O
Footprints scattered
Brush be long gone.
Ahhhhh... more good stuff... enjoying your words and writings!!!
Thank you for reading and for your comment, Michael.
Somehow this piece immediately brought to mind:
“As always, should you or any of your IM force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self destruct in 5 seconds”
I think it has that element going for it, Arthur. 😊
Hi, Paul! I loved this:
"In those day the orchard blazed, and
you blazed with it, ripening under a
watchful sun, child of the harvest,
hard, round and sweet—firm, but
still capable of being bruised."
I find myself unable to restack the stanza both in the app and online. Is that something you've dismantled?
Thank you for your comment, Rachel. I'm not aware of anything I've done that might prevent restacking, although I have had instances where I can't restack with a quote. When that happens, I copy of text I want to restack with the post and select the "Restack with a note" option.
.. may be
your very best..
yet who am i t’say..
What beautiful line… is it innocence?
It hit in all the feels. It takes me back to young love and writing in diaries both excited and horrified that someone would read it. Burn baby burn 🔥
Don't ever burn.
Many Thanks, Carole!
A beauty you fall into as you read, understanding, having loved early.
Thank you, Patris - When I was young I fell in love before I even knew what love was.
I think that may be a prerequisite to become a poet - or lover of one
Nice!
Thank you, Christopher!
Lovely, Paul. I wish I had been on Substack and discovered your talent!
Thanks, Diane. Happy to have you as a subscriber!
Thank you for the restack, @Rachel Leeke !