28 December 2009

Three Steps In The Snow



We went down to Georgia, where we saw a dozen doughnuts and some mountain laurels (both completely unavailable in Iowa City). We also saw a lot of other cool things: new babies, young & old lovers, rescued kittens, meandering rivulets, flooded fire pits, sweet black dogs, satellites overhead, darkened skies, weary travelers, remote controlled mini-copters, fresh yellow squash, unconscious turnips, and collard greens dense with tears, the ebullient faces of longtime friends, a few hairpin turns, some magical thoughts, soft bellies of Georgia earth, veritable leaping bonfires, cosmic two-lane highways, and oily, lumbering locomotives. It was good to be back. Here, now, Iowa is under snow and quiet as a parentheses.

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