That was pot-post-mo enough for me as well!
cheers Martin, waiting for more,
(never give a hand, they'll take your arm - common Italian wisdom)
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "MJ Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: me trying it on
> Merci, Rebecca . I have an awful block, but reading what Jow wrote,
> particularly his apologia, sort of spurred me to let it all hang out.
> This was as post modern as I get but it ended up like a sonnet anyway.
> mj
>
> Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
>
> >I like your poem, Martin, the texture of it, the many "r's" the most
common letter
> >in German "Russian Rilkean" Roger Roger" and within the words too, and
the way
> >it jams as it goes so that
> >
> >
> >
> >>where is she when you really need him
> >>counting the haws and kicking against the pricks
> >>a debile crooner or a punkah stare
> >>
> >>
> >
> >has a kind of loopy jazz to it, and that question, where is she when you
really
> >need him and the German included in the last line are so sharpen the
focus, so
> >thanks,
> >
> >best,
> >
> >Rebecca
> >
> >
> >
>
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