Sunday, October 21, 2007

I met a baby last night -- Darragh William Payton --
nearly six months old, a bruiser, with what looks like
apricot dust on his head: soft orange down. (A night out
at Brad's Swingside Cafe on Phinney Avenue.) Darragh
was passed contentedly from person to person, entranced
by red helium balloons and twinkle lights, shells suspended
in a net strung in the window. He dined on mother's milk
and rice cereal. The rest of us dined on mussels, calamari,
bow-tie-pasta, chicken, lamb, steak. Limoncello mousse.
And a hell of a lot of wine.

1 comment:

  1. I would have loved to have been there,too. In fact, I meant to drop by for the afterglow, but went out to see "Into the Wild" with Danan instead.

    We should share a meal sometime soon.

    Rod

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