Comments on: Far corners https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:48:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5992 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:26:41 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5992 Robin Hood had a beard? I don’t think I read that version!

Yeah, the interior structure of black walnuts is much more interesting than English walnuts, for sure.

I’m glad this rambling essay worked for you.

]]> By: Brett https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5991 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:42:07 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5991 I read once that when either Friar Tuck or Little John had been arrested (I can’t remember which), Robin Hood dyed his fair beard dark with the hulls of walnuts. With this disguise, he was able to enter town and make a daring rescue. This made sense to me and my brother as we stained our hands every fall the same way and your brothers did. Though, as you say, English walnuts are different. I like the way black walnut shell halves that have been picked clean by a squirrel look a bit like the face of a barn owl.

Thank you for the touching connections you traced between the Burmese and your own place.

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5990 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:19:59 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5990 Oh, yes, rotten tomatoes – can’t forget those! No matter how assiduously we kept after the picking, there were always a few.

I don’t know what you have in your supermarket, but the ordinary, thin-shelled walnut — the English walnut — is a very different critter.

]]> By: Laura https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5989 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:40:06 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5989 As kids, we did the same this time of year with rotten tomatoes.

Are the walnuts I buy in the supermarket a different variety than the ones I’ve been yanking out of my pup’s mouth the last few weeks? Silly that I don’t know, huh?

]]> By: Dave https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5988 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:22:43 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5988 Thanks. “Lovely but grotesque” – I do aspire toward that in much of my writing.

]]> By: marlyat2 https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5987 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:21:06 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5987 I like this meandering that makes a shape. I suppose the shape would have to be something delicate but strong, lovely but grotesque–a web, maybe, where a touch makes the whole thing and its burdens tremble.

]]> By: Rachel https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5986 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:23:23 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5986 Hell of a post, this.

]]> By: bev https://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/far-corners/#comment-5985 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:44:22 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/09/27/far-corners/#comment-5985 Awesome piece, Dave.

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