Looks perfectly clear to me Colin. The houses [that have] become homes
again.
Ann did not, as you have, interpose a comma between houses and homes.
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dewar Colin [FVPC]" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: New Sub Returning from Market
> The languor of this poem automatically makes me think of a southern
climate.
>
> I found it easy to follow except for the last part. As men and boys......
> leave for houses, become homes again. Do the men and boys become homes
> again?
>
> Colin
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: V. W. [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 1:31 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: New Sub Returning from Market
> >
> > Have just discovered 'Cesare Pavese' and am much taken with the
stillness
> > of his poems. They have the kind of light reflected in them that cannot
be
> > duplicated in Northern climates and if tried it mutates into something
> > quite different in style, I have tried it with this new sub and wonder
if
> > it works and/or proves the theory.....Ann
> >
> >
> >
> > Returning from Market
> >
> > In the street
> > a huge sky
> > waits patiently
> > the coming heat.
> >
> > In the field
> > behind tall hedges
> > boys and men
> > gaze into the soft silence.
> >
> > They breath in
> > the ripe
> > scent of harvest,
> > and wait.
> >
> > They wait
> > for the jubilant
> > laughter of women.
> > Who return
> >
> > sure footed, graceful
> > in their glowing colours,
> > smelling of summer,
> > of home.
> >
> > II
> >
> > At the works
> > molten steel
> > devours silence,
> > sky and hedge.
> >
> > Sets hard
> > in veins
> > of boys and men.
> > So that later
> >
> > in the club
> > both will chose
> > not to speak
> > of empty kitchens
> >
> > and the fancy
> > shopping trip
> > to France.
> > Feign indifference
> >
> > to the big
> > blue bus.
> > To the sound
> > of air brakes
> >
> > and women
> > chattering like starlings
> > returned
> > from distant lands.
> >
> > Alighting, most will go
> > straight home
> > to two days
> > washing up.
> >
> > Others bolder may
> > venture to the bar
> > "Get's an 'alf love."
> > Scattering parcels
> >
> > and cut price fags.
> > Nothing's said,
> > but a sense
> > of settling closes
> >
> > as men and boys
> > square shoulders,
> > leave for houses
> > become homes again.
> >
> > Ann Stockton
>
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