Saturday, December 29, 2012

Receivings and Takings Away


Holiday Gifts Received:  

-a new camera. Yay.
-a pair of NukNuuk slippers, footware so comfortable another owner actually wrote an ode to them.
-a gigantic white, scented candle
-a tall glass vase crammed with apricots soaked in amaretto-liquor
-a yellow tablecloth with a red rooster motif
-microwavable teatowels
-a crate of imported Moroccan clementines
-lavender hand cream and lime-colored liquid hand soap
-green dangly earrings (from me to me)
-two poems,  by email, from a haiku poet acquaintance, out of the blue
-a hand-painted Christmas card
-a friend's recently published book
-our cat Nikki, in my lap, her final gesture of affection, touch of paw extended
  before the unexpected, unwanted--devastatingly difficult for us--Relinquishment
                  and
 -Consciousnesses,  too detailed and/or impossible to articulate

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Some photos I'd like to share:

Bike path, Burlington, VT, first snowfall, two days ago (photos by Luis L.Tijerina)
Lake Champlain waterfront, Burlington VT
Burlap again, a favorite remembered walkpath

my neighborhood (T-R, Quebec), yesterday

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Note:

she is not a footnote
some things take time to
talk about:
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BYE, NIKKI

 

"Nikita" a/k/a Nikki  2001-2012

Des bons souvenirs:



See ya, Nik.


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It's not fair
I got to hold her one last time &
you didn't.
Our Nikki
here for years and then suddenly
not.