Thursday, July 29, 2010

Kansas City in July

Hot here: the sun is like iron weights. Bright and heavy.

I love

drinking iced coffee in Broadway Coffee. Sun through the huge panes. Sun and shadow wavering in the heat on the white tile. Clatter of mugs and voices. Steamed milk. Outside there are dogs, bikes, and a row of guys sitting on chairs in the heat.

I love

the farmers' market on Saturday morning. Huge tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant. A five-year-old sold me espresso cookies. A woman sold me bread. There are flowers in buckets, babies in slings. Morning murmur amongst fruit, potted plants, tents flapping in the hot wind.

I love

cicadas in the evening as we eat ice cream. Ice cream melting. Cold and heat. Heat heat--even into the night. Ceiling fans at night. My pregnant body sweating.

I love the skyline. I love the sun blinding. I love the huge trees in Hyde Park. I love the brick streets in Westport. I love the smell of grass.

I love
I love

5 comments:

  1. Will you be staying there? Going back to NC? Will the babe of stupendous name to come be born in KC? I am a sheaf of questions, apparently...Would love to see you, though.--Babette

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  2. Babette--We will be staying here in KC. I am very happy to be back in the place of my childhood. Though it is strange to be a stranger in my home town. Babe with Name will be born here. The day approaches! Depending on Things, we hope to make a trip Texas-ward some time in the winter (January?) to escape the worst of the Kansas cold and bring babe to see Uncle David as well as the Fraser family. Do you reside in Texas during the winter?

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  4. So strange that in lovely August in Minnesota longing thoughts of Winter friends should come unbidden. Somehow, somehow, we will contrive to see you soon.

    Do take good care of little Matilda Winter until then.

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