Ti

Her words weave

a prayer rug

of brilliant jeweled tones

for us infidels

to kneel upon and offer

our awe

at their majesty

her thoughts

a honeyed sweet additive

for the tea of

our bitter

everydayness

oh

that I were the fly

on her apple

waiting patiently

for her carving

while her fingers

hastily

jot down

the juiciness

of morning glories

and

commonalities

Once in a great while someone's words just strike us, reach all those unreachable places, and leave you full after reading. In my lifetime those writers have been Anna Akhmatova, Zora Neal Hurston, Alice Walker, Anais Nin, Marina Tsvetaeva, Ranier Rilke and Ti Klinger. I call her this century's Dorothy Parker.
Wit, depth, tears, giggles - she encompasses all of it, perfectly. Ti, quit being so stingy - share your words with the world. They need to hear them!

Katherine

I am certain, were it not for Divineness, our paths would have never crossed. She hails from a blue blooded Yankee family, and I the Southern carpenter's daughter from a Tobacco Road Mama. She grew up the diplomat's daughter in Turkey. I grew up in a government house in the rural South... But what fulfillment our crossing paths have brought us.

I introduced her to cheap coffee, Bailey White, and remind her that one can hold nothing in their hands and still find exquisiteness in the hay bales against the blue sky, walks to the dollar store, and Merle Haggard on the patio. She taught me the proper pronunciation of "brie'", brought me scarves from Italy, believed my red cardinal story, let me weep in her vineyard, and yelled at me about the sparkling beauty within me.


Anais Nin said "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting, that a new world is born.". How true this is, and how surreal this world that we have created between us. And most amazingly, she always wears the perfect shade of a satin.

indisposed

he had assured her

that the cure

was between the braids

of her long golden hair

now,

if only he could

convince her

that he

was

ailing