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Knitting a Mystery
by Grandma


I am knitting a mystery. I don't speak of murder, mind you. There are many mysteries in the world that have nothing to do with murder. Neither do I speak of crime. For we can say the same thing about mysteries and crime.
My mystery rather speaks about knitting. Yes, the pastime of many a woman, wherein one sits and fabricates a thread toward some kind of garment or blanket. Today I'm knitting baby booties, although I've no right to, naturally. Nobody I know is having a baby. Or, rather, nobody I know has admitted to being on the nest. I have a daughter but she is far past the age of expecting any new little ones. She had a son years ago who died as a toddler. He accidentally hung himself on the dining-room curtains. It's complicated and I won't revisit the matter. But to stay on topic, suffice it to say that our story has everything to do with someone having a baby. The mystery is the someone.
You may ask why I am knitting baby booties if I don't know anyone who's having a baby. And its because I had a dream last night. I had a dream that a little baby boy, no more than a toddler, came awkwardly across the yard to me. He spoke very sweetly, and with perfect English said, "Very soon, I'm coming to meet you." Can you believe that? Coming to meet me. As though someone in my life is going to have a baby and I am going to meet him. Then oddly, he added, "Please don't be afraid." Although I can't imagine why I would be afraid of a little cherub like him. He was so angelic and kind.
And so . . . I just sit here and knit my booties and wait. I hope he's going to like them.]]> http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/678/knitting-a-mystery/ Fri, 05 Sep 2014 15:24:23 +0000 Bootsie Carr http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/673/kittens-kittens-two-poems/
Kittens kittens everywhere

Kittens chewing on my hair

Kittens climbing up my jeans

Kittens hanging from the screens

There's a kitten on each shoulder

Will they do this when they're older?


Kittens fighting on the chairs

Kittens tumbling down the stairs

There's a kitten on my head

There's a kitten in the bread!

There's a kitten in my shoe

I don't believe we just have two!



SECOND POEM:

Two Cats
One up a tree
One under the tree
The cat up a tree is he
The cat under the tree is she
The tree is witch elm, just incidentally.
He takes no notice of she, she takes no notice of he.
He stares at the woolly clouds passing, she stares at the tree.
There's been a lot written about cats, by Old Possum, Yeats and Company
But not Alfred de Musset or Lord Tennyson or Poe or anybody
Wrote about one cat under, and one cat up, a tree.
God knows why this should be left for me
Except I like cats as cats be
Especially one cat up
And one cat under
A witch elm
Tree.]]> http://www.writerq.com/mobile/library/673/kittens-kittens-two-poems/ Fri, 05 Sep 2014 03:04:25 +0000 Bootsie Carr http://www.writerq.com/mobile/Bootsie/ http://www.writerq.com/mobile/Bootsie/ Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:40:07 +0000 Bootsie Carr http://www.writerq.com/mobile/Bootsie/ http://www.writerq.com/mobile/Bootsie/ Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:31:22 +0000 Bootsie Carr