thank you Douglas, it helps, take care, anny
Well done Anny, you come over as a really lovely person here.
Douglas Clark, Bath, England mailto: [log in to unmask]
Lynx: Poetry from Bath .......... http://www.bath.ac.uk/~exxdgdc/lynx.html
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> I'll be moving next door on Thursday and the couple living there will more
> here, a simultaneous exchange, I am therefore piling up things in boxes
and
> today I wrote this for my home, take care, Anny
>
> thank you my home
>
> for your gentle protection
> the comfort my enfolding shelter
> i can recognize every inch of your walls
> have talked to hinges ledges tubs nails
> which i put up & took off
> i've been repainting the six surfaces of each room
> over & over my sweat mixed with drops of paint
> & tired arms & hips & screwdrivers & brushes
> & you laughing there watching me messing it all
> to clean it up later & later to take this here & that there
> & viceversa hammering unstable on a ladder
> never satisfied as you do know
> your sweetness when outside winds were whisking their strengths
> to blow coldness through windows & cracks
> or thunders when i had to unplug from the net
> & it was only you & me & you enormously stable
> nothing would have harmed my essence i could recognize you
> & warm to me
> with that big bed fat with blankets & soft colors
> giving me rest & peace & stars up high
> i thank you my flat
> for your northern openings to the world
> that kept me here to write & work
> & the red bricks of the building in front
> every day a personal glimpse on my n.y.
> i've loved every part of you
> for your care & generosity for this sense of belonging
> your ethereal white light pervading objects
> & long azure shades when compared to my green passionate one in n.o.
> the sense of infinite loneliness you've enforced in me
> & the stillness of time rushing its ways to new eras.
>
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