Hi Catherine,
Oh, you've caught the moods well in this piece!
My only quibble: on first read through I wasn't sure about the last line.
The meaning's OK, it's just that the short punchy (t=th=t=b) syllables
seemed to make the line too quick!
I like the pictures you give me! In all the details of what's there the
powerful line: "We all have our place" is great!
Bob


>From: catherine JF <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: new:  July 2004
>Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:44:57 +0100
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>Sorry to post two in a row.
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>July 2004 - 290 and rising
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>Runner bean green scent
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>released as the knife drops
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>angled emeralds into the pot
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>Seventies' summer Sundays,
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>roast chicken, Queen Anne chairs,
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>mashed potato and family bickering.
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>Father sits at the head;
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>a mahogany tallboy behind adds gravitas.
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>Honeysuckle inveigles its way
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>through closed windows.
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>Mother and uncle, peas in a pod,
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>face sherry-flushed granny,
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>Fabian divorcee, crumpled peony
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>- and me.
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>St Emillion stains the cloth
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>(William Morris 'Willow',
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>"Don't worry it won't show.")
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>A gloopy drip trembles
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>on the gravy boat lip.
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>We all have our place.
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>I shake clods of earth from the lettuce,
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>slice off the roots and call my daughter
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>to the table.
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