Word

Redolent,

meaning

and import

drench

every syllable,

chewed off

and

spat

or unctuously

caressing the mouth.

ritornello

nag

chorus

argument

Dripping

situations,

stinking of sweat,

muscling its meaning,

stringing my

tendencies

along,

resembling something

mother said,

once.

I hold my tongue,

evoke my father’s,

sister’s.

Pendulant,

words

hang

in

my

breath.

I turn, expecting

them to

be there,

lip-synching

my thoughts

to

you.

Slowly, Very Slowly

If I have to reduce my household at the rate I have been doing the last several months, the household will have grown 5-fold at the end of the period. We have taken Jenn her bicycle and gave a drawing table to Molly McK, but gosh, we still have a house full.

Phil is in the back room, mending the webbing on the wing chair.

That chair started out as brown fuzzy horsehair. Mom had it reupholstered in a white and floral nylon in the 60s. Then I got it slipcovered in cotton in the 80s. I suppose it is time for another covering, but I'll just trim the threads where the cats have shredded it, and carry on. It's pretty comfortable when the webbing holds. Not when it doesn't.

Had a modicum of (mostly pro bono) work today; back to the packing tomorrow.