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Umber Thoughts |
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1slick_lady Member Ascendant
since 2000-12-22
Posts 6088standing on a shadow's lace 
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Umber Thoughts today I unfold yellow memories Fall brings out so much in me things I hold dear and close to skin as well as things buried with the worm bed out back by the side of the house starchplaid shirt tucked overalls crisp October delivers black men crammed tight in the back of a rusted out green pick up truck and to this day still some of the most honest men I know carrying long dried out cane poles shaking every sun peaking limb to rain thin shelled pecans from heaven the day wears long with sweat dripping red handkerchiefs rolling between burlap bagged fingers in haste to lemonade lunch of thick wheeled sandwich cheese stuck between bread cool drink dipped from a metal smile exhausted all done for later pies "no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love" Anne Rice |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
Wow....you have really drawn a good picture of a pleasurable moment.... |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
WOW! Helen, I love pecans! Thank you for the memories shared in this and the southern write. I thoroughly enjoyed this burnt-umber word-painting. |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Smiling... there's me lovely southern lady! You look as elegant carrying a cane pole as you do a lace edged handkerchief...remember those? Of course you do. Just like you remember those white stocking tights (that somehow never fit up to the crotch) and how hot they were in July but y'had to wear 'em, and the torture of that was second only to the stiff crinoline flouncy slip that was fun for spinning but scratchy in church... See what you make me do? *laughing* *touching the screen* Mud squishing through toes of bare feet, impatiently watching that cork, and lawsy, I am craving iced tea now. With mint and a lemon wedge. In November.  Love you! |
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