Deborah Humphreys wrote:
>wednesday
>
>snap, she thinks about
>
>the other
>
>meanings
>
>the sound of her sister's voice
>
>over the line
>
>the phone pulled, dropped
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>too many times
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>static and not quite
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>resignation
>
>beans falling
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>into the dinner pot
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>waiting to be steamed
>
>
A lovely thing, Deborah whose voice has been absent for far too long.
But not as lovely as the Sinner With Seven Tongues, especially the
Gaelic version which I do not understand except that the sound alone is
something extraordinary. Rare that one can hear a language not
understood yet know what it says.
ken
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"Poetry is tribal not material....this is where you can remember the good
times along with the worst; where you are not allowed to forget the worst,
else you cannot be healed."--C. D. Wright
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