In a message dated 6/18/02 6:18:49 AM, [log in to unmask] writes:
<<
Notes
In the beginning, his notes were scrawled
with an automatic hand. His name, [like scrawled with an
automatic hand]
not larger than hers, was linked by 'love'.
She decided to set to one side
resentment strokes the letters leaned on,
the sharp, slanting t-bars, like daggers
pointing to the next word. She thought
she'd prize open tightly knotted 'o's,
dot 'i's, Tipex accidental smudges
and teach him a lightness of touch: how
not to emboss the other, inkless sheets.
And later, in the way signs are brushed aside,
she ignored the absence of 'love'. >> [ouch]
I like the way the change in writing notes is juxtapositioned with the change
in relationship...great metaphor!
kol tuv, Ryfkah
|