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Thursday, April 21st, 2011
a pirate looks at five
my boy. we spent your last day of four home sick together yesterday. this morning you are five and the cupcakes for the preschool party are iced in blue chocolate-milk icing, a jujube dinosaur parked garishly in each. you have a cough that will not quit, but we will go to preschool with the cupcakes […]
21 Comments » - Posted in mama-baby stuff,milestone stuff,smitten stuff by bon
Monday, April 18th, 2011
heaveaway
there was this line in Heave, maybe twenty-five pages in: Anne of Green Gables does the Big Time. i read that line and exhaled a great, dramatic sigh and thought, there it is. the adolescent dream of a proper PEI girl. the protagonist, she’s in London. a girl from the Maritimes, twenty years old and […]
29 Comments » - Posted in social media meta stuff,stuff to be done,writing stuff by bon
Monday, April 11th, 2011
temples of words and light
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire – T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, Part I, The Burial of The Dead April is a love letter, the worst kind. it sneaks up in flowered paper and leaves you twisted and gasping at its end. its mud holds all […]
39 Comments » - Posted in milestone stuff,the home project,writing stuff by bon
Monday, April 4th, 2011
the sidewalk always goes somewhere
evening stroll, a photo by o&poecormier on Flickr. in the spring light i want to promise that we will pack ourselves up every evening and step out the door. i want to promise that we will watch the tulips come up and the grass return to the park down the street and i will remember […]
21 Comments » - Posted in stuff to be done,the home project by bon
Monday, March 28th, 2011
imprint
from the minute they were born, they looked exactly like him. all of them. even Finn, smallest of doppelgangers, his dark eyebrows and his tiny big toe carbon copies of his father’s. when Oscar was a newborn in the NICU, the nurses used to joke that they couldn’t tell him apart from Dave except for […]
20 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,relationship stuff,the home project by bon
Monday, March 21st, 2011
sick day
sick day a photo by o&poecormier on Flickr. pity him, for he is tragic, sick abed. Dave does not, to his credit, suffer from the affliction known as “man cold.” he sneers at man cold. he has the constitution of a horse. but today, rather like a horse, he cannot talk. he can only whinny, […]
19 Comments » - Posted in the home project by bon
Friday, March 18th, 2011
crippling
i am not still. i cannot quiet the hamster mind that spins on its wheel. i do not know how. i never knew how. at some point there stops being anyone to blame for that but me. neither am i in motion. i used to walk and that counted for something, the body engaged enough […]
26 Comments » - Posted in pondering stuff,stuff to be done by bon
Monday, March 14th, 2011
the sure thing
the sure thing a video by o&poecormier on Flickr. when i was a kid, i wanted to plant a time capsule in the backyard. i never did, which is just as well as we lived in a series of apartments and it’d be awkward to go tearing up somebody else’s lawn with a shovel just […]
22 Comments » - Posted in relationship stuff,the home project by bon
Monday, March 7th, 2011
an airplane named desire
kisses a photo by o&poecormier on Flickr. he leaves again today. i’ll take him to the airport. i may even go in, buy myself a diner coffee from the little restaurant, kiss him goodbye. i like airports, even tiny ones with single gates for Arrivals and Departures. i like the idea that i could be […]
22 Comments » - Posted in relationship stuff,stuff to be done,the home project by bon
Monday, February 28th, 2011
my darlin’ Clementine
the muse is in the mountains. i have to make my own coffee. it’s a hard-knock life. though the laundry seems considerably less in his absence, and all the drawers stay shut just like i left them. still. the kids sleep eventually. i miss him until the silence comes. here’s the thing about a partner. […]
