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Hello again Bob,
                 Thanks for these comments. Yes, I should do something about that lemon grass. The paint catalogue is a brilliant idea. Why didn´t I think of that?


Best wishes,   Mike



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Hi Mike,
I like this Mike. I'm not familiar with the painting but I still sense I'm
seeing things in the poem.
I guess I could call it a kind of ecological pieta... (Well, I know what I
mean!).
I like the lingering impact of the last line - but I, too, worry about how
"lemon grass" may confuse people. Is it time to look through lists of names
of paints (there used to be catalogues...) and chose another one?
Bob






>From: Mike Horwood <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: The yellow christ
>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:17:09 +0200
>
>The Yellow Christ
>
>Colour can meld body and landscape.
>Suspended over yellow fields
>and the hip of a hill
>the memory of green in the lemon grass
>behind this Christ is in his skin.
>
>Trees as red as body organs,
>supplied by arterial hedges,
>spread a feverish rash
>across this country, exhausted
>and silent and still.
>
>Three women kneel around the yellow Christ,
>grown out of the ground he embodies.
>They mourn for this sick land.
>
>
>
>
>Mike


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