tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post3061205694067636161..comments2024-03-20T16:46:13.343-04:00Comments on Marly Youmans / The Palace at 2:00 a.m. / poems, stories, novels: Here We Go RoundMarly Youmanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-90689398134376186632011-07-07T22:53:16.196-04:002011-07-07T22:53:16.196-04:00And yet I am so cheerful, Paul!And yet I am so cheerful, Paul!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-33305134384869342842011-07-07T22:37:17.108-04:002011-07-07T22:37:17.108-04:00'Sagacious poems of summer glooms'
Good g...'Sagacious poems of summer glooms'<br /><br />Good grief! But so enjoyable!<br />I know someone out there is miserable with the summer fug, but I shall look on from a distance with deep sympathy and keen incomprehension.<br />Yes, keen. : D<br /><br />Roald Dahl has nothing on you, Marly!Paul Digbynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-80860767819257344152011-07-07T22:16:36.503-04:002011-07-07T22:16:36.503-04:00Miss Zephyr,
Ah, well, you did not have the luck ...Miss Zephyr,<br /><br />Ah, well, you did not have the luck to pick your mulberries in the humid, once-beautiful (and still so, here and there, despite raging development) South.Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-64074476935551716442011-07-07T21:52:23.701-04:002011-07-07T21:52:23.701-04:00i was so confused by "here we go round the mu...i was so confused by "here we go round the mulberry bush" as a kid...because it was a tree, not a bush in our neck of the woods. And yes, very messy. But never damp.zephyrhttp://www.thegarden.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-56458683271460482092011-07-07T14:05:05.964-04:002011-07-07T14:05:05.964-04:00I did have a big one--more of a tree than a bush--...I did have a big one--more of a tree than a bush--in my back yard in Carrboro-Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I think my mother has at least one on her mountaintop, also North Carolina...marly youmanshttp://www.thepalaceat2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-53068339582531699012011-07-07T12:54:18.178-04:002011-07-07T12:54:18.178-04:00Delightful, especially just after reading daughter...Delightful, especially just after reading daughter's skipping rope rhymes. <br /><br />By the way, do you have mulberry bushes? I've yet to see one and have wondered if they only exist in fairy tales and rhymes. Oh, I know, must google....marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-64897307463802281242011-07-07T11:37:26.969-04:002011-07-07T11:37:26.969-04:00Dale,
Glad you laughed--it's absolutely going...Dale,<br /><br />Glad you laughed--it's absolutely going back to story roots. And like fairy tales, such things sustain varied readings--or so I think!Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-77486973909362630092011-07-07T11:35:07.628-04:002011-07-07T11:35:07.628-04:00Robbi,
I imagine that different people will read ...Robbi,<br /><br />I imagine that different people will read it different ways...Marly Youmanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02377938366750387442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-27989173601588133762011-07-07T11:19:27.597-04:002011-07-07T11:19:27.597-04:00:-) Not sure if I was really supposed to, but this...:-) Not sure if I was really supposed to, but this made me laugh out loud. You're going back to the nursery rhymes real folk roots here. Like that "Go the F*** to Sleep" book. "Hush little one, don't you know that the world is trying to eat you?"Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-22955838839526731092011-07-07T09:43:47.591-04:002011-07-07T09:43:47.591-04:00Captures summer funk all right.Captures summer funk all right.Robbi N.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04881145195435485238noreply@blogger.com