At the bakery in the market, the woman behind the counter always calls me “scrumple.” Like, “Whaddya need today scrumple?” “Try this this sample you scrumple you.” Not only is it weird, but it sounds like a baked good, and I just don’t like the insinuation that I have the same name as the things [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Triple Shot.
Posted in Triple Shots on January 12, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Through west Texas
Posted in poetry, tagged grandmother, road trip, stars, texas on January 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Through west Texas you told me I needed to take a step back when all we had was yellow brick after yellow brick after yellow brick, I stayed between the lines. And that always bigger picture of things loomed above us, gazing in through the windshield, squeezing our cheeks like a grandmother, so proud. For [...]
