This is another fantastic piece of writing and I love the way you delve in
there. I like the way you introduce the poem " someone throws you a line."
So right you are and just at the time when we are at our most hungriest too.
I like the way you change tack from the deep waters to the air the birds the
fine featheres. In the second stanza you know how it makes sense how it is
just made right for you, Then you delve in deeper in the third stanza all
primitive and lustful and the last stanza for me is the most powerful the
possibilty of resolution but unfortunatly for many there is not a
satisfactory resolution and another puzzle is revealed. Like this very much
Sally J

>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub: One Reason to LOve
>Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:18:00 +0100
>
>         One Reason to Love
>Subject: The discovery of connections.
>
>Argument: from observation
>
>Someone throws you a line, and you gulp it
>like a rising trout, the spinning feathers engulfed, then
>turn down into the boiling waters, and spit out the hook.
>The feathers fly again, as pheasants, peacocks, larks,
>claiming the air as their element, inflating the sky with song.
>
>Digression: the purely subjective
>
>I hear the intricacies of their melodies, those rills,
>those skeins of notes, as if they match the map
>of my nerves, synapse by synapse, as if they were made
>for me, a robe embroidered with my name and nature,
>needlepoints marking the flow of chi, Maori lines
>inscribing flesh, skin as mythology, a tattoo of blood-beats.
>
>Corollary :subjective presented as objective
>
>The connections which bind the water to the air,
>the sea to the mountain, a mind to eternity,
>sensed in the thrill that moves across a night calm
>after its black was ripped open by electricity,
>red forests seen in embers, a far planet striated
>like grapefruit segments, the brain washed with lemon
>after fainting, euphoria after a migraine.
>
>Coda : the possibity of resolution
>
>Heraldic creatures which faced away from each other,
>inlets and outflows, heads and tails, tips and toes,
>now fold together like a sheet of paper
>halved, like words bleeding ink as they touch,
>like the click of insect genitalia, like a Chinese box
>solved, opened, and another puzzle inside.
>
>                               (grasshopper)

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