Lovely and the 'back to my old ways 'rings out loud !cheers P
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poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
Sent: 07 July 2005 00:45
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Subject: Re: Snap - 7/6/2005
Yes, a sweet poem - a cliff hangar!
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> Yes, I thought so too -- it's very memorable.
>
> joanna
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> From: "SB" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Snap - 7/6/2005
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>> It seems to me that I've seen, and praised, this poem elsewhere?
>>
>> Ah, perhaps you blogged it?
>>
>> On 7/6/05, Richard Jeffrey Newman <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>> A Place To Make Your Wishes All Come True
>>>
>>> They never touched when others were around.
>>> You had to find the presence in their eyes
>>> of hunger. That's how you knew, unless you chose
>>> not to. Yesterday, they walked the sand
>>> of this too flat beach just inside the line
>>> the water leaves each time a wave withdraws.
>>> Her hands shaped the air; he kept his gaze
>>> fixed on the ground as if it might open
>>> beneath each next step they took<and then it did.
>>> I know you'll think I'm back to my old ways,
>>> but I'm clean, no dope and not a sip of booze
>>> for the last ten years. This is where I stood
>>> when the earth's mouth gaped. They didn't miss
>>> a step, I swear. Then they were gone. Like this.
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
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