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Climbing summed up

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 JJL 09 Jan 2014
A link on another thread had this further down the page. It's short, but wonderful. Enjoy.

"Her Rubber Slippers

She wears rubber slippers and she loves the tight toes and the wet-dirty-foot smell like red desert and peanut butter and all that adrenaline when her fingers burn after pinching and crimping and underclinging once twice three times with her hands chalk-white and bleeding and her feet with those knobby parts she's gotten from years of buying slippers too small and wearing them too long because she gets so focused and she just stares and stares and stares and memorizes left high-step right side-pull lieback to the jug until she can turn off her mind and just let the red rubber slippers take her up little narrow edges so that at the end of the day when she tries to take them off she keeps pulling from the inside where the stitching is coming loose and the lining peeling away in a flood of memories snowy sandstone red sky golden granite morning and that sensation that just roars inside her and could make her drop everything to feel it one more time but really she couldn't ever put that one thing before you because she doesn't know what it is but she knows that it's there as long as she keeps wearing those rubber slippers.

—Tara M. Kramer, Dubuque, Iowa "
 Blue Straggler 10 Jan 2014
In reply to JJL:

That's very good

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