Oooh, "amnesiac blankets" for snow you clever poet, Christina - original,
appropriate, and where can I buy them? (I had the supplier's name once, but
have forgotten)!
And a new impetus to the in-word "chill" - a vital role for poets, to
breathe new warmth into cold-handed words.
I've coined a new word for that skin-thrill felt in snow: 'cryotoning'?
>From: arthur seeley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: Mr White
>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:05:01 -0000
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>I don't know! These Southerners! A bit of snow and they rush into verse as
>though they discovered it and have to complain to the rest of the world of
>their hardship. Same with rain, if it rains in London it rains everywhere!!
>The secret is wear a thicker vest, Christina! Or stay in and watch from the
>window sighing like a poet in love. Up here the thin scattering we have had
>still lies where it fell ten days ago and picks out in the fields patterns
>of earlier land settlement. From my window, in fields where grass will grow
>and sheep will graze, I can see the furrows ploughed hundreds of years ago
>by Vikings all not apparent when there is no snow..
>That apart I always admire how you bring the sonnet form to so many
>ordinarily mundane things. Arthur
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:48 PM
> Subject: New sub: Mr White
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> I'm clean and unexpected when I come
> to brush your hair and settle on your coat,
> weaving those criss-cross patterns as I form
> amnesic blankets. Touch me and I'll melt -
> the icy lover turned to mush - but then
> I'll chill in slippery sheets - invisible
> under thin layers of myself. And when
> you step on me I'll harden. But I'll fall
> again, to seep into your shoes and freeze
> your toes. I'll bite your fingers too - you'll see -
> and then I'll scald your ears and nip your nose
> to send you snivelling to the surgery.
> Shovel your salt and gravel by the ton -
> one slip and I'll be there to snap a bone.
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Ooh, amne
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