Deb,

Shades of Weldon Kees (The Hourglass)? Anyway I liked this poem even if I
couldn't understand it. Any poem that starts with paramecia is off to a good
start IMO. So I was therefore slightly disappointed that I found myself
making heavy weather of it by the time I got to the middle. Since I was
enjoying the aptitude of the individual phrases I expected to be able to put
them all together into something coherent. Maybe I haven't read enough of
your poems to get to the bottom of them or maybe I'm a cement-head. The poem
leaves me wanting to know what it was about. Please enlighten me. (I note
your dash to the other side of the modernity spectrum after your sonnet sub,
which is neither good nor bad IMO. I enjoyed both in a neutral kind of a
way.)


Colin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: As It Is... uff, slight edit...sorry


> As It Is...
>
> why can't i understand
> your fascination with paramecium?
> it's not as if life needs to be
> complex, confused, disordered - by order
> you count steps, give detailed directions
> you will not stop - you won't allow - just won't allow
> the train to stop, if it does
> you begin again - begin again - begin again
> there is a horrid rash on watchless wrists
> a fleeting reminder
> an old grandfather clock
> no longer points directions,
> handless - as it is, as it is, as it is
> there must be a diary key to unlock,
> unlock my relatively small world
> stocked with all the solutions -
> liquids that polished, bleached and shined
> but shoved back, too far back on shelves
> built for amazons -
> without a good, strong stretch or climb
> they remain never within my reach
> your calendar is a heavy tome
> the places i've never been
> exchanged for routine rituals
> vitamins and newspapers
> emotions dashed about in traffic
> if only i could understand
> your fascination with paramecium
> would you unblock a day
> or continue to pencil me in?
>
> Deborah Russell, 2003
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