Wow, Jelly Moulds! Yes, Jelly Moulds! (Why didn't I think of Jelly Moulds?)
Ha, Jelly Moulds!
.... But even with knowing about Jelly Moulds (we must have been real poor
as kids - our Jelly wasn't made in a fish - it were just made in a bowl!)
I still think this may need a few days sleep (or, like a feather pillow, a
damn good shake up - and maybe one or two sharp-spikey feathers then pulled
all the way out).
But jelly moulds... why didn't I think of jelly moulds... why oh why....
grin-grin-grin!   w-o-b-b-l-e...w-o-b-b-l-e...   grin-grin-grin!
Bob
P.S. Jelly Moulds! giggle-giggle-grin!




>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Ice
>Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:17:53 EDT
>
>Hello Bob,
>Yes, I think you're right about how obsure this is.  I've been thinking a
>lot
>about repetition.  This is a pantoum reformed because I wanted to see what
>happened.  I was trying to merge two images from childhood.  One was my
>grandmother making a pudding that was poured into a green fish mould and
>the
>other a child who drowned in the canal.  They became
>very interlinked in my mind.  I'm sure that this is something I want to
>write
>about and, I suspect, in this way.  But it doesn't work at the mo'.  I'll
>stab on at this because I want to see if I can make it work.  When I first
>looked at pantoums I thought they had tremendous possibilties because we're
>such an obsessive-compulsive society.  Then it occured to me that they
>might
>be used in a surreal way.  I think it's just a matter of plodding on and
>seeing what happens.
>bw
>christina
>
>
> > Hi christina,
> > This is fine writing! I'd never realised before how powerful repetition
> > could be until I read this piece (and your previous one that also
>repeated
> > lines at the start of stanzas!)
> > I sort of feel that:
> > "A bulge for the eye that turns out hollow,
> >             waits to drown in sweetness."
> > feels so unexpected and I can't yet get the significance of why the
>words
> > are there. All attempts to imbue the words with meaning don't seem to
>work!
> > Help,
> > anyone else?
> > Bob
>
>


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