Confusion! - I read your posts in the wrong order and thought this was a
poem on its own. Now I put them together they make more sense but I feel
oddly disappointed at the neatness of it. Maybe while I didn't know what the
fish were, I was free to imagine them as a delusion of the speaker or a
metaphor for their life or something.
Best wishes
Matthew
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From: "Matthew Francis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: SNAPSHOTS #2
> I love this, Harriet - the first three lines. The last one seems an
> anticlimax after the shock of the third.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 3:41 PM
> Subject: Re: SNAPSHOTS #2
>
>
> > Oh, my computer did it again. I am hoping a new computer will arrive
this
> > week. This one is unbearable. So sorry. Here is the last stanza (if
it
> is
> > not clear I'll have to rewrite the whole thing for you.
> >
There was no elegance
in the hands that fed them yesterday.
So functional.
A task? A duty?
Who has named the fish?
The shades are being drawn.
> > It is evening.
> > The fish. The fish. Where are they going?
> >
> > Elegant hands hold the silver at the dining room table.
> >
> > ........
> >
> > So sorry for the confusion. What an impossible computer.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Harriet
> >
>
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