Hi christina,
I'm piggybacking on another comment here (think I must have deleted the
original!) but I like the image of the nuns! Some nuns do amazing things for
a living. I sense these ones deserve a fine poem - and now they've got one!
It's playful, yet... oh, the many interpretations that drift from what I've
read!
I'd consider adding more information (location, time, etc) in the title,
tho... (It might help).
Bob
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Found (first draft)
>Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 01:33:30 -0000
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>Dear Christina,
> I'm probably missing something here, but the image of nuns rummaging
>in
>the bins is such a strong and strange one that S2 seems an anti-climax.
> I'll confess this feeling may owe something to my 'thing' about nuns,
>as
>when I was 6, I was sent to convalesce after an illness to a place in Herne
>bay run by nuns - it was like Stalag 17.
>Kind regards,
> grasshopper
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Christina Fletcher
>Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 11:15 AM
>Subject: New sub: Found (first draft)
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> Found
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> Two hundred stolen from the market,
> flung behind a fence; or thrown away
> by nuns who rumage through bins.
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> I pared and crushed the stems, cut thorns
> and lower leaves. Every jug and pot is full,
> the dark glass vase fresh with colour.
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> christina fletcher
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