blood poppies roses rubies: For Graham

Saturday, September 19, 2009

For Graham

These are two of my new Indian friends. My friend Ariel and I have named them Chini (sugar) and Masala (spice). When our teacher adopted them from the animal shelter, they had some demoralizing names like Bubbli and Busi...or something. It doesn't matter. Our names are better. Now we just have to wait for the others to catch on.

(Chini is the grey one, Masala is the orange.)

2 comments:

sbrarSeptember 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM
Phew! You've saved them from a life of humiliation and taunting from the other little kittens. You've also taken some very lovely photos of them. xo
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UnknownSeptember 19, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Oh they are so skinny and in need of love and protein. what lucky little tigers, xoxo
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Unlike tigers, dragons are so immense, I would never see one in its entirety. But I could explore the mountains, which are the top of its head...In quarries I could see its strata, the dragon's veins and muscles; the minerals, its teeth and bones...Its tongue is the lightening. And the red that lightening gives to the world is strong and lucky-in blood, poppies, roses, rubies, the red feathers of birds, the red carp, the cherry tree, the peony, the line alongside the turtle's eyes and the mallard's. In the spring when the dragon awakes, I watched its turnings in the rivers.

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