This is what happens to you when you spend the –cloudy- day listening to Okkervil River and Chopin. Eventually, you turn to poetry and tea. I’m going to take up knitting. I already make soups and play cards, so knitting shouldn’t be hard.
The poem I read again today, is one everyone has done in school. But it was such a lovely autumn day and I couldn’t resist it. It’s by Emily Dickinson and I only copied the first two stanzas.
"If you were coming in the fall, I ’d brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. If I could see you in a year, I ’d wind the months in balls, And put them each in separate drawers, Until their time befalls."
September 29th, 2005 at 1:18 pm
I was never any good at understanding poetry. Guess im just not imaginative enough. oh well glad you enjoyed it!
September 29th, 2005 at 1:37 pm
come on, you do understand, because the bottom line of this poem is “I miss you” and that is something we all understand.
September 29th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
ok i get the holding time still to you return bit then but whats this about hitting flies and smiling yet spurning summer. I dont know. Is it bad that you can read English better than me? Still my Midlands dialect is better
September 29th, 2005 at 1:55 pm
god, and imagine you live with a writer
September 29th, 2005 at 1:59 pm
he doesnt let me read anything! seriously he always says i can but when it comes round to it - nothing! He emailed everyone his last script but i get nothing. nothing!
September 29th, 2005 at 2:09 pm
he says it’s on his laptop if you want to read it!
September 30th, 2005 at 10:43 am
Ah - I’m a knitter! Mostly of small objects like hats and scarves and socks and such. (with the occasional simple blanket - like a scarf, but BIGGER - thrown in) Welcome!
Fall is my favorite time of year here in New England.
September 30th, 2005 at 12:41 pm
i’d love to be able to knit Stephanie, seriously, but because I’m left handed people tell me I’d be useless.
October 1st, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Have hope! Here’s an article from a left-handed knitter:
Knitting in the Mirror
October 2nd, 2005 at 6:17 am
thank you Stephanie. going to read it, print it out and learn it by heart.
Thanks again!