Hi grasshopper,
You paint a poweful picture here! I like the fact that I don't find it easy
to grasp what everything means (yet I feel it all makes sense within the
poem)! The only image that seemed to refer beyond the poem is the one about
the stone (from) light years away "that proved it" (and I wonder why it's so
significant that the last three letter's of the alphabet are in the wrong
order - I'd be happy to simply know that, or not know that in the poem). The
word "proved" implies something beyond the poem.
If it's that I have to do more reading about Andromeda I'll have to wait
until I can find a book that tells me what happened before she got chained
to the rock! (and, eventually, flung up to become a star!)
Bob
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New Sub: Annie and Dromida
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:38:59 -0000
>
> Annie and Dromida
>
>He never used a cup
>but drunk from an flared bowl,
>fingers curved around the far side,
>his thumb touching the top
>of the liquid, then he tipped
>the bowl and drank. After a while
>she found handles strange.
>He did not like hot liquids
>or spicy foods that bit
>the tissues. She found
>that she gave up vindaloo
>and turned to the sweet
>and aromatic dishes, with lots
>of plain boiled rice, pure white.
>He confirmed what she had
>always suspected, that
>the last letters of the alphabet
>were in the wrong order.
>He had an red faded picture
>of a stone light-years away that
>proved it. His eyes were as yellow
>as a wolf's gaze. She had sucked
>barley sugar, sherbet lemons,
>soft rich caramels. Her tongue
>recognised the colour. His pelt
>was flecked like a leopard's
> and he preferred the shade.
>She had never enjoyed sweating
>in public. Their fingers
>interlocked.
>
> grasshopper
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