This piece accomplishes quite a lot since it persuades its object to say
something truthful about what it is, what it does, and who it has known.
And I don't see difficulty with the second line because its last two words
are extracted, hyphenated, set apart, as it were from the text. And by doing
this, Stephen seems to making a gesture of presentation ("here"), as well as
speaking of where the reader/persona has been and wehere we've all arrived.
Gerald S.
> Very nice, Stephen.
>
>> The woman who appears uncombed to shout atop a long
>> Open balustrade of white, yellow, red and pale-apricot roses.
>
> I have trouble reading this part - some rhythmic problem - too many
> stresses in the second line perhaps.
>
> Janet
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> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.arach.net.au/~huxtable/janet/proximity.html
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