Hi Marilyn,
Yes this goes together well. I don't like "thrum" but it goes with "hum"
later on. I like the musical link. Mozart's good for everything at anytime.
bw
James
>From: Marilyn Injeyan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: Almost a Small Extinction
>Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 17:52:40 EDT
>
>
> Almost a Small Extinction
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>
> Nudged by the startle and swell
> that penetrates the intimate dome,
> her rosy fists thrum inside the womb
> to The Magic Flute and she taps
> up and down her bones
>
> from one room into another, hangs
> onto the cord's warmth, stands
> and peers through her mother's
> navel, begins to forget how close
> she'd come to being dissolved,
> whisked away as in a "nuclear winter."
>
> She unwinds with a divertimento,
> lets go, avoids rope burn.
> In a reverie, she rides a comet's tail
> propelled by star wind.
> Prebirth wail, unheard, grows dim,
> stammer turns into a hum.
>
> Sheathed in a caul, braced
> to be born, she will soon know
> her voice, this precious hour,
> to fill unworn shoes marking time.
>
>
> Marilyn Injeyan
> July 3, 2002
>
>
bw
James
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