Friday, April 3, 2020

What Truly Warms


Linking with Flash Fiction 55 at Verse Escape 
a wonderful prompt that will be weekly for the month of April.
Come join us!

Cook me up a summer afternoon and I may go swallow a river in Colorado
I would rather sip cool breezes from an autumn afternoon
 than gulp dry skies of a blazing hot morning
somewhere the clouds have mercy on starving fields in summer
as I long for crisp winter mornings to warm my soul.




6 comments:

  1. Carrie, this is GORGEOUS! Every word.

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  2. This is a deft chiaroscuro of contrasts, and a masterly use of 55 words to pain the portrait of our discontent with process, even the natural process, that we have no control over--very apt in these times, and a great 55. So glad you came out to play, Carrie, and please have (as much as possible) a kickass weekend!

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  3. You and me both, Carrie! Wonderful.

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  4. Thank you everyone, I am just delighted I made it to the 55 this week!

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  5. Sharply written Carrie. Truly a tight insight of delight (oh my, dear me, forgive the rhyming) - but I really love the sharpness of the contrasts, the compact imagery - it speaks/opens volumes, intimate and personal, but also far reaching, the input of clouds somewhere drenching a drought-stricken field etc.
    Just amazing. The type of short piece that you read repeatedly, to drink in the depths of its effect.

    Cheers! (and I hope you and yours are safe and well)

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  6. we all wish a respite from the coming heat ~

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