tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57597419132720331232024-02-19T10:24:04.576-08:00LoveLaughterTearsStories of love and laughter and sometimes tears from a heart that belongs to Midwestern USA.PatStorieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15534390209782816913noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759741913272033123.post-57865346881033580242012-08-26T10:20:00.000-07:002012-08-26T10:22:32.024-07:00At work in sun room of a house. 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">First post. Wanted to share beauty as it came to me years ago and stayed and stayed. Thanks to Jim May for the storytelling workshop that allowed me to find this within. PatC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Insistence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">White house, green grass, small heart-shaped leaves on the
lilacs, smaller spring green leaves on the maples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Homemade white swingset with porch swing and a child's
wooden swing, under one maple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Shades of brown in the wet branches and tree trunks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Shades of black in the soft wet earth
smooth around the tree trunks and scuffed into velvet under the swings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wet not of rain but of heavy dew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Grass not yet mowed even once swishing against shoes as she
walks to the car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Silver dew drops
at the tip of heart-shaped lilac leaves; at the sharp points on the maple
leaves; all along every bar of the swingset and at the tips of blades of
grass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A silver sparkle in each
drop from the pale light of the early sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The car door handle smooth and cool and wet--opened softly;
slammed shut.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tears running down
her face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">"Life is shit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What is this morning doing here?"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her voice and the engine breaking the silence at the same
time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">The dog not outside yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No walkers, no runners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No
wind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No birds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No sound but her voice and the racing
engine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">A look back at the swingset white against the rich browns and
blacks and greens and all sparkling with silver drops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stark pure beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Undeniable and painful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">No answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one
to answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No thing to
answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alone and hurting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Alone and more alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Brown and black and gray of the gravel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Angry shift and out the driveway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Glass and glasses fogged by the
moisture of the morning, including the tears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">No answer for months but no escaping that question; that
morning.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Answers came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
flowed and changed then settled gradually until she knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That morning was spring and beauty,
hope and renewal, insistent upon recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Patricia Coffie, Stories from Home, c1978, 307 words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier New";">Contact me through the blog or at maemaude@mac.com</span></div>
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