Thanks Arthur, So glad it communicated. I had worries on communicability
when posting it. Philip
>From: arthur seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: new sub: Snap Dragons
>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:02:31 -0000
>
>Let me be the one to explain the title's play on words. Snap dragon is the
>common name for a garden flower, but snap is also a colloquialism for a
>photograph and dragons spoil things.
>I like the poem which has a strange theme but a deep reach. Thanks for the
>read Phillip
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Philip Burton" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 6:19 PM
>Subject: new sub: Snap Dragons
>
>
> Snap Dragons
>
>- when photos go wrong
>
>A white rectangle.
>A Boot Hill of a thumb.
>This vertical shot of a shoe.
>A sundrench.
>An entirity of sky.
>
>These blurs resemble life.
>But taken from where?
>Why do they keep me?
>Is there a hidden?
>
>Then the crooked shiver
>diguised as a shrug -
>the fingers, interring
> the last of them
>
>
>
>
>
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