Enon, 2014
I'd think about being crouched in the field, dilated, tacky with cool, mineral damp, inhaling the fumes of the grass and soil and hearing the wind move up behind the hill and come over it and swirl through the pine trees and stick to the pitch leaking down their trunks and push across the field in waves through the long grass, all beneath the stars and the pink moon, the flower moon, the strawberry, buck, and the hunter's moon, and the clouds lit up in silhouettes, their outlines turning and cresting and collapsing so intricately that I could never recall their true extravagances days later when I lay sleepless in my bed.
Paul Harding, Enon
Wow.
I loved Tinkers and I'm loving Enon. Thanks for doing what you do, Paul Harding.
WOW yes it is.
ReplyDeletehave yet to read his work, will start with Tinkers
thanks, Denise
Fabulous idea, Nancy. I know you'll enjoy it.
DeleteOh my. *adds to wishlist*
ReplyDeleteGreat!
DeleteI wish I had more time for all the things I like to do. I still like your book recomendations. I have a list. I am reading my way through it, slowly. That is good. I want to enjoy every read, not only check them off my list.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week!
Good plan, Anne Marie. Only checking off would be such a pity.
DeleteIt left me slightly breathless, and feeling saturated.
ReplyDeleteHopefully in a good way, Kate.
DeleteDare I say that such a sentence feels even better in the mouth than Midnight beans?
ReplyDeleteIt might be a tie.
Deletewonderful. I'm putting him on my list of reads.
ReplyDeleteExcellent plan, Diane.
Deletethis is going on the list of books to read this year!
ReplyDeleteThat IS a sentence. Did you by any chance catch the PBS segment on J.D. Salinger? just wondered.
ReplyDeleteI did not see the PBS segment, Shelley. I did see the 2013 documentary titled Salinger.
Deletehe must have studied Latin... that long, logical, eloquent interconnectedness...
ReplyDeleteNice observation, Amelia.
DeleteOh my. That was like riding a wave. What a string of words. Thank you for that, Denise.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It was like riding a wave. You are welcome.
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