{"id":2433,"date":"2010-06-07T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2010-06-08T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T17:54:09","slug":"i-dont-know-how-i-ever-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/07\/i-dont-know-how-i-ever-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"i dont know how i ever fly"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have the loveliest back garden. With climbing ivy and purple flowers and white hydrangeas and a massive rose bush covered in little yellow sprays. Two tomato trees I’m determined to grow. My mother grew hundreds. Quite literally, hundreds. I can grow two. Probably not. <\/p>\n

I thought, for a moment, back in May, I’d like to have tanned legs this summer. That thought came back to haunt me. The legs remain, as ever, poultry-coloured. <\/p>\n

The tops of my neighbours’ houses, lined up all symmetrically, remind me of Brighton Beach houses. This makes me smile.<\/p>\n

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I want a hammock. Something bright and colourful. To swing in and catch Vitamin D in and just be all good-feeling in. But I don’t want ticks in my hair. Ticks terrify me. I use to love sleeping in the grass. I don’t do that anymore. Ticks are why. <\/p>\n

Maybe I’ll put up a massive Moroccan canopy instead. I saw something like this once, at a friend’s<\/a> house in Greece. It shaded patios and pillows and pools. Books about espionage. I could do nothing but sit beneath it until it got too hot for me to sit any more. With a tea set my mother gave me. <\/p>\n

There’s always the problem of the sun, of course. My splotchy hands – my leopard spots. And that fat ole Robin that keeps mistaking my hat for a nest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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