Thank you for your comments.
The child is pretending shoes are poeple.
kol tuv, Ryfkah
In a message dated 6/10/02 4:46:24 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< 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
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