ecargo12 Mar 2006

re: bullying--it does come through, in the black and blue, in the grinning and the laughing, etc. The mottling of merle works, I think (had to look up "merle"--I only know it from Robert Plant singing about his dog, Strider--a blue-eyed merle--a million years ago); you probably even get away with churl because this has something of an "out of time" feel to it.