Hi Christine,
Wow! A poem that's so mischevious in how it does things.
But I sometimes get confused because I keep thinking the spider "hurls" it's
food in your poem. I don't know if it does. I sort of think of a spider's
scurry out from the web with the poor meal tightly gripped. (And I think
there's an aussie phrase about food being hurled that's slang for vomiting -
like a technicolour yawn!). But the spider might hurl it somewhere
afterwards I guess. I don't know.
But, that on one side, it's a delighful poem that does what it does so well.
(But t5hen part of me wonders if the last line could fit almost any poem
and, therefore, doesn't fit this poem as neatly as all the other bits of the
poem do...). It seems tame in comparison with the daring statements that
have come before it.
(and part of me also wonders if the title works... it seems to mean the
question's are still being asked... but the poem seems to be saying the
questions have been answered!)
Bob
>From: "Bousfield, Christine [CES]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: sub-why?
>Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 20:18:18 +0100
>
>Dear All
>Comments please
>BW
>Christine
>
>Why?
>
>Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
>A toad would love you better,
>sit grinning by your side,
>hear your murmurs to the wind.
>
>Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
>A bear would dance you round
>nuzzle your ear, bristle up close,
>snuffle the lines in your hand.
>
>Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
>Spiders would spin you a dream,
>to hurl you, wild-eyed, into the night,
>leave you in silken bonds.
>
>Why risk your arm with a greedy lover?
>A snake would swallow its tail,
>shed skins to make you shoes,
>draw crazed circles in your mind.
>
>No, best give me your arm;
>I eat well, don't need
>to devour the hands I hold:
>we two are of a kind.
>
>
>
>chrisbousfield October 2002
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