Yes I understand what you mean Grassy. I understood it as meaning  as
spirits we will not need food anymore but the bowls used as containers for
catching sunlight which I think is an excellent thought. It is a most
excellent poem so it is best kept as you intended. bw sally j


>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub:Listening to the Dog - Sally, Ryfkah
>Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 21:50:31 +0100
>
>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]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>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
> >
> >
> > >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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