He filled a coffee mug with vodka and drank it down. Antifreeze. He didn’t want to, but he remembered when a Texas summer was hot.
Tag: memory
Quotable 218
Write what should not be forgotten.
– Isabel Allende
haiku 306
trying to recall
unwritten haiku –
404 error
haiku 235
nearly forgotten sound –
rainwater trickles
into storm drain
haiku 231
afternoon walk
jogs memory
of paper route
haiku 222
memory restocks
shelves in
gutted store
In related matters …
I’ve been catching up on some of the blogs I’ve neglected over the holidays. One of them (apologies) is 3quarksdaily, where one finds all sorts of thought-provoking essays.
I found one such essay from December 29 by Jeff Strabone titled The Jennifer Anniston in All of Us. It directly relates to Auld Acquaintance, which I had posted here not quite a day earlier. It’s about forgetting our past so we can live in our present. Check it out.