Hi Bob
Thanks
There's no actual Brazilian link here - except that its a Brazilian bikini
wax - (is that clear - does it need to be?)though as a nice link the woman
who does it for me is actually Brazlian.
Should drink not be in the present tense - I got awfully confused with this
sentence which is probably a bad sign. "who'd probably have liked to watch"
is effectively parenthesised (or should be) so  effective leave to text,
drink my coffee. Leavie is a typo for leave by the way.
Yeah its probably the story I'm thinking about - and I suspect it is about
voyeurism all the way through - I think the reader becomes voyeur as soon as
I tell them I've got my knickers off! And does individuality never matter as
part of voyeurism. It does if its a component of a relationship between two
people, I suspect.
Dunno.
The oil goes on after the pubic hair has been waxed away - kind of cools
things off a bit!
Cheers
Helen

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: New Sub: A Brazilian at Blake's


> Hi Helen,
> Wow! I like the way this poem takes me somewhere I haven't been before:
> Blake's house, and the whole experience that's going on there. (Is it
> William Blake? I sort of automatically assumed it is!). I guess the
> freshness, the strangeness of the experience is helped because I'm reading
> it with a Brazilliam perspective - I'm being told, therefore, I won't have
> seen this before, or seen this in this way before.
> I'm a little puzzled by the present tense of "drink" (a typo?) and
"leavie"
> I also read as "leave". (I might also put a comma after "Done"!).
> The way the title starts - with the word "A" before "Brazilian at
Blake's" -
> seems important to me too! Individuality matters. Yet it ends with
voyeurism
> where individuality doesn't matter... and the Ruskin allusion, where
things
> didn't work out (if it's the story I'm thinking of!), adds yet another
> twist.
> Bob
> Who's too embrassed to ask about the oil - but who can accept that it must
> be what some people do...
> And who, if it's Willie Blake's house in Peckham, knows a good story about
> him and his wife prancing naked around the garden!
>
> >From: Helen Clare <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: New Sub: A Brazilian at Blake's
> >Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:28:47 -0000
> >
> >A Brazilian at Blake's
> >
> >In the basement of Blake's old house
> >I'm laid out on paper, knickerless
> >a mirror facing my open legs.
> >Warm wax, skin held tight, the rip,
> >a fuzz of hair on linen. In silhouette
> >she trims away to leave the black,
> >methodical until a rubbered knuckle
> >slips beneath an outer lip.
> >Then I look, to see this touching
> >so precise and circumspect. Done
> >I must admire her art - to find
> >its innocence that's stripped away -
> >before I oil and dress, leavie, to text
> >the sweet voyeur who I suspect
> >would happily have watched,
> >drink my coffee, prickling in the heat
> >trying not to think of Ruskin.
> >
> >Helen Clare
>
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