Breena Clarke
Fat and Grinning https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09QNMMDNW?fbclid=IwAR3AaxHK0z953AYBkfH1slejQmi8aHXDFW4b62IS8SpTndcfxE0VE3rmAkA
Breena’s writing an episodic story too.
(Fats Waller music and some pretty good sex.)
Here’s how Breena and I met.
(this story is true)
Years ago my then agent invited me to go
to a Woman’s Writers Retreat at Ghost Ranch.
Maybe I can get you a teaching job there
she said and we flew together found ourselves
in a funky cabin in one of the most wonderful places
on earth Ghost Ranch god is it beautiful
but my then agent didn’t like it much. I did
so stayed alone and the second morning
I woke up very early went outside to see the sun rise
bright pink then yellow and I said to the fascinating poet
who was watching with me Bhanu Khapil
this place would be perfect if they had coffee.
Bhanu drank tea.
They served a Presbyterian version.
The right color, maybe. No taste.
Bhanu told me about a teacher named
Breena Clarke who’d been there before
knew enough to bring her own coffee.
She’s in that cabin up the road Bhanu said.
I waited a few hours until respectable nine o’clock
to ask Breena Clarke
a stranger, if I could have some coffee.
I knocked on her door and asked politely.
No said Breena, unexpectedly.
And that’s how we became friends.
Society Library Breena or a different one?