Julie's Elixir, Read it Till you Burst! Julie's Elixir, the Best for What is Worst!

[Julie]

I'm in, so help me.


1. Drop
2. Killing Frost
3. Run
4. Vagabond
5. Fool me
6. Break
7. Poe, or ode on a virtual keynotes
8. MCS; Wheels; LTC
9. On Firefox's Most Visited Button
10. Crotchets
11. Scope
12. Holt
13. Dementia
14. Voice; Rhododendron
15. ... of the Apostles
16. Methodology
17. Handy; Primary Colors
18. Connect
19. And now you're even older
20. To the Dying
21. Burley and bright
22. HHS
23. Coke
24. Hospice
25. Cordless
26. Fox
27. Clouds
28. Laundering
29. Mock trial
30. Metro

[5th column]

'The best for what is würst!'

[prokopton]

To contemplate the journey is so sweet,
but on the way may be chaos, dust, sweat
and uncertainty, but I know this - it will pass.

May your journey be a fruitful one.

G.

[merelynn]

I'm in, so help me.

I hear ya - my feelings exactly. Happy NaPoMo!

[Julie]

Drop

The flowers try to kill the others, like a slow
assassination drowning them in a thick

mulch of petals. The hyacinth spangled
with cherry blossoms, then cloaked, then gone,

and I try to shake them free but hurt more than help
the stems now bruising and browned.

The blossoms are tacky with rain and rot and stick
like a bit of cellotape or like a bit of shining onion skin

when you try to peel then chop then cry
and it clings to your fingers like a dying friend.

[Arlene]

Gardening is painful...love the last couplet.

[Dani B]

beaut of a snapshot, slow (and unstoppable) assassination -d

[UnkleBob]

Drop is really really good. Really like the shining onion skin, when you try to peel then chop then cry and it clings to your fingers like a dying friend.

For some reason I kept reading but hurt as butt hurt.

[Jee Leong]

love the tacky bit, with cellotape, which sets up the onion skin so well.

[JFN]

Julie, happy NaPo.

S3 of Drop made me smile, if only because that seems to be how I garden too. The final couplet of onion skin and clinging to fingers is lovely.

Keep them coming.

John

[kamala]

Hmm, the hidden nastiness of the garden! Slow assassination is great, and the observation of the onion skin and dying friend...Scary stuff (in a good sort of way)!

[vmh]

Hi Julie: So nice to see you here. I love

The hyacinth spangled
with cherry blossoms, then cloaked

Sounds good and it would look good too. Purple and white and pink and then gone, just like spring.

Vicky

[Blythe]

Hi Julie! Long time no see. Hope you're well!

[Donner]

Hey, Julie, good to see you here!

I was just thinking the other week that I wish the crocus would last longer. They bloom for such a short time, then fade. "Drop" is a nice picture of wanting to hold on to such a pretty flower as a hyacinth, but doing more harm than good in an effort to do so. Nicely done.

Donner

[PClem]

You describe dealing with bulbs and Spring flowers well. I have a love/hate relationship with hyacinths. They look beautiful the first year and it's all downhill from there.