Hi Bob, The "Why do they detain me?" refers to the snaps. As in, "I don't
think we need let this little problem detain us any longer, Mister James
Bond." (Blofeld reaches for....)....well, you get the picture.....
Here's the later draft:
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
best regards,
Philip
>From: Bob Cooper <[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: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:31:09 +0000
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>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
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>>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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>>
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