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Agosto 22, 2005
Sick day begins
I took the day off to rest... but it is a joke. There are too many good things to do here. Moreover the cat just puked and is now back to carrying on the way she does: running up the walls and keeping watch from the high windows.
So I am ignoring her and her pukeitallupandjustgetonwithit way of doing things.
I bought this book for Martin because he really wanted it but then he didn't use it. I don't mind... I didn't know how good it is until today.
"Peach
Prunus persica Batsch
A well-known, small fruit tree with a
short trunk, spreading, rounded crown,
showy pink blossoms, long, narrow
leaves, and yellow to pink juicy fruit...
Leaves:...Lance-shaped or
narrowly oblong, finely saw-toothed, sides
often curved up from midvein; leafstalks
short with glands near tip. Shiny green
above, paler beneath. Crushed foliage
has a strong odor and bitter taste.
Bark: dark reddish-brown, smooth,
becoming rough, bitter..."
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There are plenty of poems about peach trees and peaches, to be sure. But this I have found to be just as tantalizing as any, in spite of its prescient pose. High quality unintentional enjambment (hooray) blah blah blah... and the way such a fancy book would use the word twig with such authority. It is like an excercise in the subversive nature of four letter words: Screwbean Mesquite, Roemer Catclaw, Jerusalem Thorn, Silktree, Cliffrose, Oneseed Juniper and then you start to think this is your grammar school class picture, all your friends lined up, looking their best and such comforting common names: Tamarisk, Sugar Sumac, Saguaro, Lyontree, Little Walnut, Quaking Aspen.
What a great book to sneeze on.
just in case | By crymytinyflood | 09:49 AM
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i just can't get enough of the jerusulem thorn.
Posted by: emile at Agosto 23, 2005 11:17 PM
I hope you feel better soon...we never quite got around to watching The Life Aquatic
Posted by: Juliana at Agosto 22, 2005 01:07 PM
