Hi Ryfkah,

Very Eliot influenced I think, but no less for that. I don't know what a
"shofar" is though. I'm not too sure what it means but like it, if that
makes sense.

bw
James


>From: Ryfkah * <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New Sub.: Sixpense/#115 A Dream or Other Reality
>Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:53:42 EST
>
>Till human voices wake us, and we drown.  Thomas Stearns Eliot
>
>Sixpense #115/A Dream or Other Reality
>
>like gravity
>waves sway
>drag and draw
>
>a mermaid
>I caress tears
>lover's sweat
>
>orange scent
>perfumes
>I lick tangerine hue
>
>hear a battle cry
>agent orange memory
>the sound of the shofar
>
>starry sky stares
>eyes on black turf
>I turn toward the beach
>
>detritus piled high
>covered by periwinkle
>crabs  octopi snagged
>
>the taste of orange
>savory and sticky
>refreshes
>
>listen to children's
>shrieks as bombs
>decimate
>
>a security blanket
>water covers
>drowns sorrow
>
>Ryfkah 1/6/02




bw
James


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