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Put a poem in your pocket, an antique in your home!
Antiques
Things that are old
In antique shops they are sold
From collectors books
To long rusty window hooks
All dusty which have seen better days
Overlooked by paintings of a bygone age
If we could peel away all life's grime
Treasures I'm sure we would soon find
So next time you see an antiquity of desire
Give thought to the person who sought to inspire
In antique shops they are sold
From collectors books
To long rusty window hooks
All dusty which have seen better days
Overlooked by paintings of a bygone age
If we could peel away all life's grime
Treasures I'm sure we would soon find
So next time you see an antiquity of desire
Give thought to the person who sought to inspire
--JeanJacques Evendon
Celebrate National Poetry Month with The Pack Rat Antiques
Poem in your pocket day is April 18th -- Check it out!
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Poem in your pocket day is April 18th -- Check it out!
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Celebrate Women's History Month!
http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/colls/themes/march.htmlA SOUTHERN RHETORIC
"It's a sight in this world
the things in this world
there are to see!" my mother says
as she hurries between the stove
and Sunday table. She is just back
from vacation. Happy.
Talking mountains. Talking rivers.
Big cedars and tidal bores.
When I tease her for redundancy,
her face glows like a sturgeon moon
risen above fat buttery atolls
of biscuits, steaming promontory
of roast. She shakes her finger
in my face and scolds me good:
"Girl, don't you forget who it was
learned you to talk."
Amazing she would want
to lay claim to these syllables
piling up like railroad salvage
when I speak, to these words slow as hooves
dredging from the wet of just-plowed fields.
I watch her turn, embarrassed, to the sink,
to the pots and pans she will scrub
to a gleam so bright we can see ourselves
as if the two of us stared back
from the lost rhetoric of memory.
From the little house, the crib where
she bent each day, naming
for me the world where words always fail,
warranting, now and then,
those few extra syllables,
some things spoken twice.
© Cathy Smith Bowers, 1996, 1998.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Just in!
2 Malaga Coffee (fabric) barrel back chairs made by Lee Industries and retail for $1,300 each .... Pack Rat price is $395....new, perfect condition [here's the same chair in white]
Grandpark Taupe (fabric) loveseat is also handcrafted from Lee Industries in Newton N. C.... retail price is $1,999.00, but the Pack Rat price is $695...new, perfect condition -- W65 D34 H36
Stop on by the shoppe today and check them out for yourself!
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Stop on by the shoppe today and check them out for yourself!
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Monday, August 15, 2011
What a pret-tee settee!
Gorgeous antique settee in perfect condition... Gemdrop-like fabric that's the preppy pick for this fall... Take this into your home and see your life transform and brighten with style!
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