Breathless wonders

It began at the vernacular body, one-sentence stories: The time my father got sick of the number of agama lizards that had invaded the compound...

My contribution appears there with three others, at this count, but I will reproduce mine here:

When I was five and visiting a neighbor we were upstairs in someone's bedroom where there was a gray cat whose long fur I pushed my face right into rolling it back and forth to feel the soft warm fuzziness against my cheeks and forehead and then my nose watered and my eyes puffed up and the whole world got fuzzy only in a bad way and that's how we learned of my cat allergies.

See also:
* Nomen est Numen: When we first met we sat half-facing each other...

* Laughing Knees: Damn developers are at it again this time flipping sides...

* Numenius: The four of us pursued the fly as it zoomed from...

* Pica: So I'm on the phone with my good buddy...

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From the Vineyard

Neptune

Radar relays

his coded message

from Cape Poge

to East Chop to West

ferries it across

sound and bay

while Mercury’s

impetuous sandals tap

in dreams I toss

tangled in his wake

and on waking sleep-walk

to answer back.

(Revised 11/11/04)

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