Dear Grasshopper,

No the woman did not leave the man to live with some
one else. Just herself and the three girls.

No she did not keep the family home. The law was not
involved. She took half the value and bought herself
something strictly within her budget.She did not even
take half the furniture.  Friends gave her lots and
she has made a cosy home. She married young and unlike
her husband has not trained for a well-paid career.

Maybe life is confusing.  Maybe especially so because
we all bring to it different preconceptions.

I was trying to show not tell and obviously failed
dreadfully for some readers.

Thank you for taking the trouble to read and comment.

cheers, cara


 --- grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
wrote: > Dear Cara,
>               I found the narrative very confusing.
> I presume the woman left
> the man to live with someone else, (or surely, with
> 3 children, she would
> have kept the family house?) and now she just brings
> the girls back for
> visits on Sundays?
>       I couldn't work out what I was supposed to
> make of this, or what the
> social worker or the neighbout had to do with it, so
> at the end of the poem,
> I just felt uninvolved and up in the air. I didn't
> feel I'd learnt much
> about anyone in the poem.
> Kind regards,
>            grasshopper
>
>
> > > The Three Sisters
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > They come on Sundays now,
> > > touch their long dark hair into place
> > > as they slide out of the emerald Clio,
> > > wave, blow kisses, to their mother,
> > > dance down the steps into the hill-side house
> > > where once they played, and wept, and grew.
> > >
> > > Today the old car bucks and whirrs
> > > at the intricacies of turning-spaces
> > > as its driver mimes a greeting
> > > to a social-worker, neighbour,
> > > who stays a moment on her doorstep,
> > > thinks 'Perhaps a conversation...'
> > >
> > >
> > > Others notice through their windows,
> > > remember how they miss the siblings,
> > > wonder what the mother does
> > > while the daughters are indulged and feted
> > > by their father and the dark-haired girl-friend
> > > who joined him from the on-line chat-room
> > >
> > > after his family had moved out.
> > >
> > >
> > > cara                                  march 2002

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