multi-layered, Christina, and certainly got me musing. I just wonder if it
isn't a little too smug about the near repetition and its double entendre?
P-P
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub: Shine
>Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 05:48:21 EST
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> Shine
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> We shine in shadow, share whip and top,
> skip until our shoes scuff.
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> Soles worn thin, we save sixpence for Jesus
> who suffers children,
> bleeds and rises.
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> Skin to skin, we taste the outline
> of difference in darkness.
> I bleed. You rise.
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>christina fletcher
Perpetua Pullman
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