Let's define "ilk." The ilk is occasion. The occasion of a remembrance, perhaps a birthday. Yes, two birthdays -- Susan Black and Liz Hack a few days apart as February moves into March. What astonishing artists, both.
Bring on bright vegetables; and ample the celebration. And grateful, the friendship.
(H) cont.
ReplyDeleteWhile the workers ate peaches and drank water
he stayed behind in the dingy workspace
and examined from all angles
the paper, the ink, the postmark, the stamp
He began to see a pattern in the wavy lines
surrounding the date of the postmark
and immediately concluded they were a symbol
of an attack originating on the high seas