Yes, wonderfully descriptive of the image. As avisual artist you are very
adept at picking out the detail and transferring it successfully to word
media. Good stuff. Is this a series perchance?
bw
James
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New Sub: Couple (1930)
>Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 07:10:25 EDT
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> Couple (1930)
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> It's hard to see how innocent they were:
> time settled a film of sticky dust on their image.
> It could be King George's Park or Wimbledon Common:
> thick trees, rough grass, stones softened
> by the Sunday cloth they spread that summer.
> He sits upright in his trunks, fingers firm
> on the curve of his calves. She's dressed,
> astride his shoulders, the shadow of her slacks
> like braces on his naked chest,
> the straight line of his parting extended
> by the buttons of her blouse. She rests
> her hands on the head between her thighs.
> They're like the tip of a totem rooted in soil:
> centred, still smiling.
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> christina fletcher
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