Deborah,
Thanks for filling me in.
Colin
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From: "Deborah Russell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: As It Is... - Colin
> Dear Colin:
>
> 'As It Is', is about obsessive-compulsive behavior.
>
> - Deborah Russell
>
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>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
> 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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