It’s like keeping a weasel in the freezer,
this wishing things were different than they are.
What could possible change
when what is most playful, most wild
is put on ice? Let your prayer be living weasel,
running weasel, frolicking and tricky weasel,
slinking weasel, leaping weasel, wriggling
ferocious weasel. The more you wish,
the more the temperature
on your wishes drops.
Weasel, weasel, weasel,
weasel, weasel, weasel, pop.
not a weasel, but a marten. read martin marten by brian doyle. dave turned me on to brian’s work. best fiction ever. sadly he died in may- a great loss. his book, the plover, is our favorite. you can read martin with your kids.
Yeah, but weasel in the freezer sounds so much better and flows trippingly off the tongue! Still, I will look up martin marten âº
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This one’s by Wild Rose, yes?
My next book’s title: Weasel in the Freezer, with accompanying CD by Rob Kenagy. He doesn’t know it yet. Swish, swish.
Wild Rose weasel! My next book’s title: “Weasel in the Freezer” w/ Rob Keneagy accompanying on fuzzed-out guitar on enclosed CD (he doesn’t know it yet).
Ha! The weasel in the freezer was a gift in an exquisite corpse metaphor exercise we did in the workshop on Saturday, and one of the participants, i think it was Barb Saunier, had used it earlier in a game of “two truths and a lie” … though we never did learn WHY she had a weasel in her freezer. I can’t wait till your book with Rob’s accompaniment comes out! 🙂