on 7/1/02 6:17 pm, cara may at [log in to unmask] wrote:
Cara, I like this he-and-she poem, I like the weaving/threads simile running
through it, nice and simply expressed too. I don't quite get the "heavy
stairs" bit but am prepared to take it on trust. Sally-ee.
> Old Hurts
>
>
> He was always amazed
> at the way she picked
> the frayed edges
> of relationships.
>
> Then kept the multi-coloured
> ends of threads
> in a translucent
> jar.
>
> He suspected
> that the innocent glass
> played tricks upon
> her perceptions.
>
> When she stayed up at night,
> he imagined,
> she spilled
> the coloured strands
>
> over the drab table-cloth;
> tried to re-weave them
> into patterns
> that would have pleased.
>
> He could track the tears
> on her cheeks
> once she had climbed
> the heavy stairs
>
> to join him.
>
>
>
> cara january 2002
>
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