An excellent poem Terri. Thank you.
bw
James
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>Subject: sub: membership
>Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 21:27:19 -0000
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>Membership
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>‘Do you mind?’ ‘Of course not.’ So she waits,
>poised in elegant discomfort,
>
>supervised by cut glass decanters
>and past-painted presidents.
>
>The knock.
>Perfectly controlled, she breathes. ‘Come in’
>
>a millisecond late as if
>she might have been engaged.
>
>‘The membership committee have considered your request.’
>A pause. He coughs. Polite, she looks away,
>
>out into the winter garden, where,
>awkward as a toe-hole in a tight-tucked sheet of snow
>
>a bunch of grubby snowdrops
>hang their heads.
>
>
>Terri )O(
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