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.
Carrie, this is GORGEOUS! Every word.
ReplyDeleteThis 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!
ReplyDeleteYou and me both, Carrie! Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone, I am just delighted I made it to the 55 this week!
ReplyDeleteSharply 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.
ReplyDeleteJust 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)
we all wish a respite from the coming heat ~
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