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SUMMARY:Me\, Again\: Alice and Remington
DESCRIPTION:Me on a prop. We have manual typewriters that work. This one doesn’t. I wanted it to. Bought it at a garage sale. Couldn’t fix it. One year for Christmas\, our family made little poetry books for our friends. I wrote some of the poems. David typed them all up--after we found a cheap typewriter that worked and found some ribbon for it. Caroline assembled some of them. We typed them up on pretty handmade papers I bought from a Yalie in Ann Arbor over the internet. The poems had something to do with preserving the fruit of summer in preparation for winter to come. I will let you read it yourself.\n  Blackberry Jam\n  What a thing to find\n  In a cupboard announced bare\n  Hiding in the corner of the bottom shelf\n  Invisible to quick glances and fast thrown open doors\n  A jar of blackberry jam\n  We picked that fruit one August\n  When we were rich and fat\n  Gobbling more than we carried home\n  Warm and unwashed we ate them\, between kissing\,\n  And we were going to eat them all\, chastened by\n  The Seamus Heaney poem—we feared any bounty we left for another day\n  Would spoil—\n  Oddly puritan to worry about winter\n  Coming in Tennessee August—but we are oddly puritan. I made jam before we made\n  love\, inky kisses\, inky fingerprints on my bell\, let me help you remember that—\n  I have not pawned our wedding silver\n  Here is a spoon for you and a spoon for me\n  Here is a taste of us then\, to hold us till tomorrow\n  To sweeten our hungry now\n  It had been a hard year in the marriage. Making the Christmas presents sweetened the pot somehow. Making our little books together we stumbled back into love. And that’s kind a sorta what all of my books are about\: Not letting anything prevent the stumble back into love.\n
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