Archive for June, 2008
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
the stinkeye
we leave early tomorrow morning for Halifax, for the next installment in the Miss Cervix Universe 2008 pageant, the continuing saga. this time we’re aiming for a daytrip…a zoom there, zoom back operation, wherein Oscar will remain with his sitter for the day and be picked up by Nannie for supper if we’re not back […]
29 Comments » - Posted in mama-baby stuff,stuff to be done by bon
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
remembrance of things past
flipping through old photo albums while ostensibly tidying the den, i come across a collection of photos entitled “June 1998.” ten years ago. the span of time is not so shocking as the irrefutable visual evidence that i was not, as my internal clock testifies, a mere child a decade ago. apparently i am not […]
28 Comments » - Posted in milestone stuff,stuff stuff by bon
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
over the sea to Skye
my mother and i went to a funeral this morning. for a family friend, a big, warm bear of a man whose daughters i was close to when we were children, a man who then left that family and started another and whom i hadn’t seen in nearly twenty years when i wandered into his […]
31 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff by bon
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
mythologies excerpted
there is this song of mothers and daughters, one i have been rehearsing my whole life. i have been trying to lay down its lyrics over the past few days, sounding out the verses, testing what is honest. it is hardly work, this writing…it lurches out of me in spurts and clots, memory and wish […]
24 Comments » - Posted in pregnancy stuff,relationship stuff by bon
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
nothing but flowers
counting he picks them with a zeal bordering on obsession, with a “wow-oo” of admiration for those most ripe, most worthy. those that come free of the ground with long stems he deems “biii-iiig”…those whose heads he pulls off, still unsure of the physics of this whole plucking art, are “babies.” he gives me the […]
