Hi Barbara,
Just trying to catch up on some stuff. I like this poem and the very real
feeling that comes from it. I wonder if you need to add "enough" at the end
as this is evident through the rest of the poem.
bw
James
>From: Barbara Ostrander <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: new sub: chemo
>Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:36:19 EDT
>
>Chemo
>
>it never hits with the flash and thunder of a storm
>doesn't sweep away in a raging flood
>maybe that's why I forget to run
>why I allow such damage in the end
>
>no, it's more like the gentle relentless rains
>the steady flow that seeps and drowns
>the worm
>leaves it stretched across the sidewalk
>for the birds to pluck away
>
>I should be glad that it's working
>I should be
>but somehow when I pass a mirror
>and see the swollen marked terrain
>I want to cry
>
>enough
>
>
>BBO
>5/30/01
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