Hi Ryfkah,
I'm enjoying this poem each time I read it - it's taking my imagination to
all sorts of intruiging places...
But i find I'm still getting surprised by the introduction of "the shoe
people" - everything else intrigues but I find these people difficult - it
may be because all the other people you mention (family, mother, brother)
are recognisable as "real" people but I keep wanting to read these as
(merely) metaphorical/imaginary people. It's also odd because I don't think
there is a "marching band" on the beach - there I can accept see's playing,
imagining she's leading a band. Sometimes I even go as far as thinking
they're a child's slippers with faces embroidered on them! (But at other
times I think "what makes me think that?" and I can't find a prompt in the
poem to justify what I've thought!). It might just be me, but I feel the
poem could/should give me a tad more help with these shoe people!
All else, however, lead me, takes me to the delightful place you mention:
the "anotherside."
Bob
>From: Ryfkah * <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New: The Redheaded Girl
>Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 12:03:40 EDT
>
>The Redheaded Girl
>
>A door is drawn on the wall
>by a redheaded child
>the entrance to anotherside
>
>She dusts angel snow
>in shower powder
>on the bathroom floor
>
>Her family takes their annual New Year's
>stroll along the beach
>She leads a marching band
>
>Shoe people line up
>in the girl's room
>They share escapades
>
>Mother goes out grocery shopping
>The house is woven
>with mottled thread a spider's web
>
>Voices in the library
>her brother asks Who's there
>The girl returns God
>
>Ryfkah 6/2/02
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