Day: September 6, 2009

The Flower Lady

From where I sit at my newly arranged desk on the third floor I see a mass of purple flowers in the foreground and dense woods just beyond, with a path mown between. Fifty feet into the trees there’s a spot of silver flickering. It’s all I can see of the stream. Late yesterday I looked out the window and saw Mary, co-landlord with Victor, make her way along the path and disappear around the […]

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Full Moon

Sorry for that last boring, long post. I violated all rules of bloggery by going back and excising chunks of it. Last night I dreamed I turned my car off the road and drove toward a marsh. “Don’t go that way,” I warned myself, but still I kept driving. So this is what they meant by “intensive.” Remind me next time I go to grad school not to move across the country the night before […]

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