Dear Erminia
You should meet my 12yo daughter, who is obsessed by wolves. Her
room is covered with pictures of them, and the two poems she has
shyly shown me are both about wolves and their "dangerous beauty"
which ... oh dear ... brings "emotional ruin".
She is of course an avid Jack London fan -
Best
A
>"The wolves"
>
>Is your mind reaching the boundaries of
>the first and final stanza
>the fountain's mouth
>the mountain's spring
>the tension of the text
>
>between the enphasis
>of its altitude
>the dread of its depression
>the sickning power of its magnitude?
>
>Does your heart reach the end
>of your poem feeling broken your lungs brethless
>as after running down a slope
>with wolves caesing you?
>
>Are your ankles ever biten by such verses?
>
>
>Erminia Passannanti
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Alison Croggon
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