Roundabouts with Blackberries

[squirmelia]

Instead of just eating lunch at my desk today, I ran across busy roads, and ate blackberries from bushes in the middle of a roundabout.

Comments

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

i am so consumerized that even the idea of eating something that hasn't been manufactured, packaged, shipped, and purchased seems strange. :(

The sad part is

[erinaf.livejournal.com]

I thought she meant the little device to check your Email before i read it ;)

Re: The sad part is

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Well, I did go back to the office and check my email with blackberry stains on my hands, so that's kind of similar.

Re: The sad part is

[erinaf.livejournal.com]

Almost the same :) How much money do I owe you for the Stratford tickets? Do you want me to send you a check or just give you money at the show?

Re: The sad part is

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Not sure how much at the moment - I am moving house this week, so I think I've already packed the tickets away! Money at the show would be easier for me really.

OK

[erinaf.livejournal.com]

Cool. I'll pay you for both but if you do know anyone who wants to go twice or didn't already have a ticket that works too :) I can't wait!

Re: OK

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Is Mark not coming then? Maybe we can ask on the list if someone else wants the extra ticket?

He's not

[erinaf.livejournal.com]

And i think Kate just posted on the list that she still needed a ticket. I replied i thought we had one but i would check with you. Yeah for helping out campers ;)

Re: He's not

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool! Yes, that seems like a good plan.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Well, they were by a busy road, so may have been covered in exhaust fumes, but they tasted good anyway!

[fluffymark]

Breakfast for me this month has been blackberries from local hedgerows on my walk to feed a cat each morning. They're so large an juicy and fresh and yummy! :)

Maybe I'll go into Epping Forest at the weekend and collect lots and lots and do stuff with them. :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

The other ones I've tried from local hedgerows have not been ripe, but the ones today were very juicy!

Blackberry and apple crumble, blackberry ice-cream, blackberry yogurt, mmm. I wonder if there is anywhere around here that has enough that I could pick that many. A few weeks ago, I went to a pick-your-own place and got raspberries, loganberries, redcurrants, and tayberries. Very tasty.

[roseseule.livejournal.com]

As a kid, we had a HUGE blackberry patch in front of our house and I spent many a summer day with a 5 gallon bucket, loading up blackberries for the family. I liked it while I was doing it, but the bug bites that would appear at night were horrible.

Now, I can only get them at the grocery store for horridly inflated prices.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Blackberries seem all over the place here at the moment, although only in small patches, randomly by the roadside. :)

For you.

[theapplepicker.livejournal.com]

Blackberrying: A Conversation Piece

Whether birds feel joy in their flight

Whether one's lifework might be something no one wants

Whether one will end up living in a cardboard box

Whether love is an element like air or fire

Such are the questions on their purple tongues.


Copyright © 2002 Jeremy Hooker
All rights reserved
from Adamah

Re: For you.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Yey for purple tongues!

And more berries that are black, even if they aren't blackberries...

[theapplepicker.livejournal.com]

Mulberry

Despite millennia jammed with the impossible
silk of aroma, intellection's saffron, the grilled
cocoon of feeling, not to mention Psyche, Muse, Id,
Satori, Melancholy, Eros, Eros, Eros,
or the bottomless agony this poem will
not praise or bemoan or so much as wince at beyond
this line, I offer mulberry, mulberry pure
as idea and mulberry dense by the dozen
in a blue tureen big as a soccer ball halved,
thick bowl glazed blue as mulberries mounded blue-black
as Andalucían sky the moment before
final black comes, and when it comes (mulberry-inked
memory, mulberry equipoise not sweet nor sour),
it bursts between tongue and palate, thirst at once made
and gratified, lamplit night-nectar sluicing down throats,
mulberries hilled on hand-churned ice cream, mulberries
spreading dusk on dabbling fingers, swabbing fat tongues,
speckling noses and eyelids and cheeks and nothing
exists, exists, nothing the mulberry sublime.


Copyright © 2004 John Repp
All rights reserved
from The Fertile Crescent
Cherry Grove Collections

Re: And more berries that are black, even if they aren't blackberries...

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

Nice poem, although I can't recall exactly what mulberries taste like. For some reason I think they should taste like mulled wine. :)

[gentio.livejournal.com]

We used to have blackberry bushed down the lane by the side of my parents house.. they were really nice :)

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I was never quite tall enough to pick all the blackberries from my parents' place, since they hung over a rather high wall, but the ones on the roundabout I could reach perfectly well. :)