In a message dated 12/30/2003 10:12:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
> Would appreciate hearing your thoughts,
> Barbara
>
>
> Silver Thread
>
> How to pull out new beginnings
> when things fray, show signs of strain
> and grow heavy with the dust of bones.
> How to somehow snatch back
> the snap of eyes, take that which is unstrung
> and thread it through with the unbreakable filament.
> A slender stream to wash away the grime
> that layers heart and hands,
> spins and twists away, an unbroken flow
> that loops back into the eye.
>
> How to make one's way from here to there,
> one complete turn past the projecting helical rib,
> weave the silver thread into the darkest head of hair.
>
> BBO
> 12-28-03
I like grow heavy with the dust of bones and the ending is superb.
kol tuv, Ryfkah
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