Simon Wilson
A Necklace of Thorns
Despite their fame, their paintings and their place in history, Diego and Frida (we are on first name terms in my imagination) still had to chat about the weather, and bicker about who forgot to buy more milk for breakfast. I imagine the weather was mostly sunny, and that it was Diego who forgot the milk. With his affairs and all those frescoes, it must have been difficult to fit the shopping in.
My wife’s throat, spiked with black sutures, is less inflamed today. I check each morning, trying not to let my worries show. Across the toast crumbs, she reminds me that we need more bread today, and I have to paint the garage doors this spring. For a moment my mind flits to a glorious picture of doors featuring Leon Trotsky and Emiliano Zapata against a backdrop of moustachioed revolutionaries. My wife suggests we stick with green.
today
she has her stitches out
I joke I will buy
gold paint to mend the scar
shared history
About the Author
Simon Wilson has been a poultry farmer, salesman, antique dealer, gardener, and instructor on a Care Farm. He now works in a coin shop and wishes he had tried harder at school.
This is sooo refreshing and fun! I loved it and your pacing is perfect.
Yes, green ts great for garage doors….
karina
Thank you for stopping by, and for the comments. I’m still dreaming of revolutionaries, but we agreed on green. Have you any idea how many shades of green there are? I may have to write a tanka prose about them . . .
Hi Simon, yes, I have a wall of green and it is deep forest green. Looks good as a backdrop for nature art and photos tho. Sometimes we need these minor distractions to get over a bumpy road. I hope everything is fine now. I have CBS due to my escaped vision…Charles Bonet Syndrome. I can have pictures and colors running through my head and vision for days at a time, no sleep. Last time I was busy reading the dead sea scrolls for three days –I went to my doctor and asked him what is happening and he told me about CBS…and FYI The son of the guy who had it named the TV station after it. I guess it was his father that had it. That’s the story I have anyway. smile I wanted to write about one of those experiences but did not know how to express it on paper …Word…so to speak. Take care, See you next CHO, hopefully! Karina
Thanks Karina, I will do my best to return! I’m sorry to hear about your CBS – I’d never heard of it before. I have to admit, when I first saw “CBS” I wondered why it was better than other TV channels, then you explained. It sounds like it would be interesting for a few minutes but horrendous for any longer.
A nice play on the important and the mundane. You did get me wondering whether these two famous artists did ever fight about the mundane. As you said, maybe there wasn’t time. The parallel between the important and mundane in you and your wife re her surgery illness was touching and unexpected. Now I’m left to wonder my we fight about the little things. Thanks, Ray
You are right about the contrast between the mundane and the important. A very simple gardening accident (falling whilst struggling to carry a large pot) resulted in a cut to the jugular vein. If I wrote it as fiction, you would say it was too far-fetched. And all, as I tell her, because she wouldn’t ask for help. Yes, we even manage to fight about that.