Hi Sally,
Sounds like a perfectly lovely kitchen, but do kitchen's "cheer". I know
what you mean though some may take the more literal sense. A lot of "how"
that gets irritating. I though the poem could start better from S3 as it
takes you straight in. the thinking is on the basis that you enter a room
and don't immediately take in everything in it. So, take us into your
kitchen then tell us a bit about it... or should you show us the kitchen,
aye, well. Wee bit tightening and juggling and it could be a good one.
bw
James
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: Poet's Kitchen
>Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 23:11:28 +0000
>
>Another kitchen poem for you, by chance as far as I know!
>
>POETšS KITCHEN
>
>We always knew the room
>must fill a thousand purposes
>and yet must cheer.
>Geraniums in pots are here,
>a book-rack and a candelabra,
>a calendar, a telephone,
>tall flowers in vases, and a straggling vine.
>
>How ordinary seems this kitchen,
>how normal the enamelled blue
>and green of crockery, jugs and pans,
>how standardised the microwave,
>cooker and washer.
>
>And yet how other
>this room is to me now
>the poet in me looks upon it,
>presumes its use for rhyme and sonnet,
>and spurns its copyright, my life,
>which should perhaps be lived heads down,
>less risk, less hubris.
>
>A book falls open, and is read.
>the phone rings, and the poet becomes
>a long-distance parent; the men are fed.
>The window, cramped into a corner,
>looks out upon a wooded hill,
>oaks further down, then pointed firs
>until the windowpane is full
>but for one corner, to the sky.
>
>Wešve been there often, you and I.
>
>
>
>Sally Evans
>
>http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
bw
James
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