Re: the bowls at the end.
Ryfkah,
They are needed now to hold the sunlight, but in the future,after death,
they will not be needed.
Sally,
In a way, the bowls are deliberately mundane and bathetic, sort of
anti-climax. I feel in a way that's more true to our experience of life and
death that a big poetic close, if that makes any sense. Also, I hope the
'bowls' become a metaphor for more - flesh, bodies -all not needed after
death.
Kind regards,
grasshopper
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [THE-WORKS] New sub:Listening to the Dog
> Grassy I have read this agian and still overcome with the beauty of it but
> dare I say just one quibble. Should it be food will not be needed? bw
sally
> j
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> >From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: New sub:Listening to the Dog
> >Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:07:41 +0100
> >
> >
> >
> > Listening to the Dog
> >
> >My dog is teaching me to die. He explains that humans
> >think too much, confuse thinking with wisdom. Each moment,
> >he says, is a world that time cannot touch. I had forgotten.
> >
> >His course begins with learning how to gather up flesh,
> >with feeling the brain open like a flower, the taking in of breath
> >hard, until it burns the lungs. Lungs will not be needed.
> >
> >I will seize his shaggy throat and he will pull me through the elements
> >as the dolphin drew Arion up through the eye she had made
> >in the skin of the sea. Eyes will not be needed. Vision will become
> >
> >being. Beyond there will be grass greener than the smell of rain
> >and no sadness. I believe him. We carry our feeding bowls out
> >into the garden and fill them with sun. Bowls will not be needed.
> >
> >(grasshopper)
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