Tuesday, December 12, 2017

cold

i'm tired of having a cold now.
please go away.
but we have lots of snow now and more coming.
YAY!
i beat a pound of flax
and brought home 2 quarts
and made 93 sheets of little paper.
it's really nice stuff
and so i went to school yesterday, 
and melissa, my co-teacher
has the cold.
we left early, 
but not until we'd done our juxtaposition origami book exchange.
i'll take photos and post.
i love how these sheets look/sound/feel so very FLAX.
i haven't seen this one
since all the snow began to fall.
i've been pretty bored 
so
i wrote a silly poem, but the cold is still here. 
sigh.


sleeping or not
with a head full of snot
a cold is a cold is a cold.

eyeballs are achy
and tummy is quaky
a cold is a cold is a cold.

head twice too big
it thinks of nothing
a cold is a cold is a cold.

tomorrow i know
it won’t be here, no!
a cold was a cold was a cold.

Velma Bolyard 12/10/17

7 comments:

  1. I know that cold. I had it too from the 14th of December till it broke about a week ago but the stuffed up nose persists and it appreciates that poem and does not find it the least bit silly.

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  2. oops---that was the 14th of NOVEMBER. IT WAS A MONSTER.

    PS LOVE YOUR FLAX PAGES.
    :PVE THE CHIPMONK TOO

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  3. michelle, YUCK to the cold! it will pass, but it's exhausting, isn't it? and annoying. i have had the amazing luxury of being able to rest a lot.

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  4. love the paper, great poem, just got out of the hospital myself! being sick stinks

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  5. susan, oh, gosh, i hope you are recovering well.

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  6. hope the cold has left, I hate it when my head won't think! Beautiful little papers, they look good enough to eat. We don't have chipmunks just aggressive squirrels and destructive racoons. Super poem. Get well.

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  7. jean, no chipmunks? i didn't know that.

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