And Then There Is Naomi

Naomi Swinton


and then there is Naomi

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And then there is Naomi. Naomi Swinton (sometimes known as monsterchild but who’s name really indicates one is in the presence of “one who outshines the sun”), mother of these two kids and my partner in crime and everything else. Red haired, freckled, left-handed, with a galaxy of reverse freckles starting just above the space between her clavicles (which a French woman told me has a name that means “the place you lick the salt out of”). Those reverse freckles run, spray, licks around the curve of her neck. A stark, wild sight in summer when all the rest of her glows red.

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And then there is Naomi.
Naomi Swinton
(sometimes known as monsterchild
but who’s name really indicates
one is in the presence of
“one who outshines the sun”),
mother of these two kids
and my partner in crime and everything else.
Red haired, freckled, left-handed,
with a galaxy of reverse freckles
starting just above the space
between her clavicles
(which a French woman told me
has a name that means
“the place you lick the salt out of”).
Those reverse freckles run, spray, licks
around the curve of her neck.
A stark, wild sight in summer
when all the rest of her glows red.

Rick Mobbs

Posted over on his blog Mine Enemy Grows Older

1. Prose by Rick Mobbs
2. Line breaks by Glenn Buttkus