BIRCH TREES . . . S. Morgan : December 2014

Musings

"We should not have expectations of contentedness. . . " Mrs Brown./Today I love Sugarland's performance of "Stay" (Don't judge me for sentimentality). /I love a silly little movie called Catch and Release and a movie about a survivor of the Holocaust with a very young Jude Law and Claire Danes called I love you, I love you (seriously)./ Three deer trotted across my yard at twilight yesterday. They blended in with the pre-spring browness of the lawn. One turned back just before the road and held perfectly still against a tree as a car passed before it bolted after the others./

Best Similes of 2007--so far.

"You'll see them on stream beds, like slivers of dark mercury over smooth stone. As river knives, they cut the water hard and fast, and are beautiful in the hand: rose colored gill plates, a red banner across the flank, a pattern of constellations and sidereal speckling over the entirety of the body." JG

"Stabbed with a tipless ice pick. Forced to drink the sacrificial blood of cocker spaniel puppies."

"Like Paul Newman sawing the heads off parking meters or something."

"I didn't call him back because he freaked me out by confessing a great crush before he knew my name."

"Somebody buy me a magic 8 ball for crying out loud." Gilz

"It hit me like a hot sack of crap to my upper lip."
--Emily Junebug Gillz

"Go disappear into the wild like juniper smoke."--Joe G.

BIRCH TREES . . . S. Morgan

12/11/14

This song haunts me.