John #Updike, a rather randy gent, was writing this black sex comedy full of exquisite dialogue and dread, and then, it seems, decided to kick his readers square in the gut. Rabbit, Run caught me off guard in the best way. #novel #FridayReads

@joyce a good writer can get the reader to keep reading. I don't like Rabbit in any of the #Updike books, but love the stories.

The #Days are short,
The #Sun a #Spark,
Hung thin between
The dark & dark.

Fat snowy #Footsteps
track the floor.
Milk bottles burst
Outside the #Door.

The #River is
A #Frozen place
Held still beneath
The #Trees of lace.

The #Sky is low.
The #Wind is gray.
The radiator
Purrs all day.

- John #Updike, #January

#Writer #Writing #Author #Poetry #Poet #Poem
#Seasons #Winter #Nature #Snowday
#Gardening #Garden #Gardener
#Nature #Coffee #Cozy #Hygge

#Vss365 (#Gardener's version)

Today's word made me think of John #Updike's A&P: #Lust in the Aisles.

Like the #Slow #Sound of a #Great #Gong,
#Yellow overspreads the #Woods

From the tan of #Beech & #Ash
To the #Hickory's spotty #Gold

And the Hat #Butter #Color of the mitten-shaped
#Leaves of the #Sassafras

#Mittens that can have a #Thumb
or two
or none.