Christina,I get the feeling this is part of a more expansive piece as yet
unwritten. I love what you have here but felt it was merely the starter for
the main meal.
bw
James
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: Self Portrait
>Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:39:12 EST
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> Self Portrait
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> I sense how she started - oiling slippery earths,
> sucking brushes to a point, hesitant marks
> to trace a space from a mole to a nipple.
> She must have seen structure under her skin
> when her eyes glided from fleshed-out Maxilla
> to Lachrymal bone. This is the texture
> of one-eyed, splayed brush days - of mud
> wiped away with rags under her easel -
> when she failed to find one true line
> in a maze of illusion, unable to measure
> the infinitessimal distance: the difference
> between self and a stranger.
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> christina fletcher
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