A white haze on the bank above the road: the shadbush is finally beginning to blossom. A brown thrasher in the yard says everything twice.
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Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
Daily short takes from an Appalachian hollow
A white haze on the bank above the road: the shadbush is finally beginning to blossom. A brown thrasher in the yard says everything twice.
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Refrain
I buy tomatoes, I buy onions, I buy tea.
The pantry is stocked with sweets but my tongue
needs savory. Here is my troublesome past
come back– it coasts across the interstate
without brakes, slaps down the bill, rearranges
all the furniture. Out there, a white haze smudges
the bank above the road. A brown thrasher in the yard
mouths everything twice: *Consider, consider.*
What I imagine he says is good advice.
~ Luisa A. Igloria
04 25 2011
http://koshtra.blogspot.com/2011/04/everything-twice.html
No brown thrashers out here. I think the complaining bird this morning was a house sparrow, but y’all know how good a birder I am :-)
I’m just as good as you, D. :P :)