Hi Philip,
I had no problem with the title! I just thought "snap dragon" used to only
mean a flower... but now I see something else it can mean - some sort of
creature that messes up the camera work when snap-shots are taken... (I also
found myself making a strange leap to The Clangers and the Soup Dragons! So
I was smiling by the time I'd read the poem and returned to the title!).
The line "Why do they keep me?" puzzles me a little... Who's "they"? The
snap dragons, the photgraphs/snapshots? I'm not yet sure...
But a fun wistful piece.
Bob
>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: new sub: Snap Dragons
>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 18:19:52 +0000
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> 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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