The Butterfly Hours Memoir Project: HUMMING

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } </style> <br />--> <div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGREmRgn70..." imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="231" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SGREmRgn70..." width="213" /></a></div>For 2019 I'm running a year-long series on my blog in which I share my responses to the writing assignment prompts found in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Hour... BUTTERLY HOURS by Patty Dann.</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;">I welcome you to join me, if you like! I've divided the prompts by month, and the plan is to respond to 3 (or so) a week. For some of these I may write poems, for others prose. The important thing is to mine my memory. Who knows where this exploration will lead?</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"><br /></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;">For links to the prompts I've written on so far this year, please click on <a href="https://irenelatham.blogspot.com/p/th... Butterfly Hours</a> tab above. This month's prompts include: <i>hospital, hotel, humming, ice-skating, illness, kitchen table, knife, laundry, library, lunch.</i></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.08in;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">HUMMING</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Sound of Summer is a Hum</b></span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">It starts with Mama</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">at her sewing machine,</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">stitching seams</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">in summer dresses</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">for Ms. Judy</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">moves to the library's </span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">florescent overhead</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">lights as I sit</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">on the ABC rug,</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">reading about horses</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">slips past the door</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">from the driveway</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">as my brothers</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">circle the go-kart</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">again and again,</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">wheels spinning</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Gulf coast sugar-sand</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">before settling</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">in Granddaddy's garden </span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">where bees swarm</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">the tomato blossoms</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">and corn fattens </span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">inside the shuck,</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">green green green</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">until finally – soon! –</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">yellow-kerneled ears</span></span></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">pop out to say,</span></span></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>hello, June!</i></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>- Irene Latham</i></span></span></span></div><br />