Nice work, Just-In....
What's yer ski total so far? Or is it too early to throw that out there?

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:15:26 -0500, Just In Woods <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>overhanging, mrg 3/11
>
>
>my father was pounding on the door
>at four-thirty:  “time to get up.”
>it was a matter of fact.  didn’t matter
>that my stomach was knotted on the floor
>and the room was spinning like the world
>with my head at the center of gravity.
>it was my first morning
>after my first bourbon, i was fifteen,
>and i had a paper route.  i don’t remember
>much of the party after andy telling me
>to guard his parents’ liquor cabinet.
>i had just attained the pinnacle
>of my stupidity, and it had been
>a long and careful study.
>
>the funny part was that i didn’t think
>my dad would notice a son so far gone--
>my friends had left me in a pile
>on the front lawn for him to pick me up,
>and i did my best to stagger
>nonchalantly to the car.
>
>so when the knocks came crashing
>into the present, i had no choice;
>i was an independent businessman,
>and i had a product to deliver.
>
>twenty years later, i wouldn’t think
>i’d have the same potential for stupidity.
>i’d been rolling “blue ice” onto our bedroom
>wall for the last hour.  my arm felt
>like dark matter, and i’d thrown the window
>open to suck in some fresh air.
>
>(my wife reserves “dumbass” for those
>occasions when i really am one.)
>
>as i hung out the window gasping,
>i thought  of my father
>who had said nothing
>but with his silence on the matter:
>suck it up, boy; there is a job to be done.
>
>
>
>
>shady porcupines, mrg 3/12
>
>the porcupines have been
>in the gazelle woods.
>you can see
>that they've been
>dining on maple bark--
>they must be dying
>for some new shoots.
>i keep thinking that
>i'll run into a gang
>of the shadier ones on some
>dark trail: "this is a stick-up.
>give us all of your granola,
>you hairless plank-walker."
>
>
>
>first boil, mrg 3/13
>
>bernie's shack was going full tilt
>when i headed out to do some slush
>turns in the rain.  the whole thing
>was enshrouded in steam.  weird
>how the day he boils can be so unlike
>the one where he brings the sap down.
>
>
>
>
>--justin
>
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