Thank you very much, Martin. Looking at it twice I find more
angles to it than I realized... given that "slip" is not only a scrambling
of "lips", but also a kind of tree-cutting... & if you consider the traditional
symbolic valence of the dogwood tree, why, there's Fourfold Allegory!
- regards, henry
Martin wrote:
>I like the Charles Martin sonnet Hass quotes and I'm even more intrigued by
>your sonnets, Henry, which I'm appreciating at intervals ~ I like:
> red, red, red.
>I am ready to disappear given the slip
>my kiss betrayed
>~ which is very witty and suggestive in its punning and syntax permitting
>diametrically opposed meanings.
>Martin
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