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Tia Ballantine

Time passes slowly up here on the mountain

4/3/2012

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 . . . and disappears too quickly into the thrum of the city streets. Where have the past two weeks gone? Why have I not posted anything here? Am I dead? Dying? Sick? Confused? Captured? Stuffed under the kitchen sink, all trussed up with dental floss?

None of the above.  I have no excuse. I've just been wandering,  in and out of rain, re-imagining spring.

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And spring has been happening.
Flowers bursting from concrete.
Seas lifting past usual borders, leaving behind wisps of ocean hair.

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And in some neighborhoods, there are new houses of a size suitable for fairies more at home sheltering under lily leaves. Furniture-less, these houses keep the rain off words -- spread the word. Keep literature circulating and free. 

I'm all for it.

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So winter leaves, summer comes sneaking in, and I am making my own decisions about my own teeny-weeny house of  a size suitable for dreams.

What am I in the eyes of most people  - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart.  

. . . So Vincent Van Gogh once wrote to his brother Theo.

Now, I'm going to go and make some tapioca. I love tapioca -- fish eyes and glue, we used say as kids, our spoons clanking against the metal sides of the pan, polishing it clean before the pudding cooled.

Fish eyes and glue.


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Don Albertson
4/3/2012 11:04:49 pm

Happy to learn it is only Spring wandering and not a resurgent malarial ague.

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