Caleb,
This is amazing - the imagery, tone, control, rhymes etc. etc..
I always look forward to reading your work on the list - for the narrative
drama, for the elegiacal tones, for their language, again etc. etc. For some
reason Nick Cave's songs hover when reading your poems.
I normally keep shtum on the list - way too much of a neophyte. I read,
admire and learn 99.99% of the time, but had to tell you how much I admire
this.
(I anticipate the groans -but I'm due to start a writing degree at
Portsmouth in the Autumn - took me 44 years, the death of my too-new
husband, and the kindness of list members (archive Summer 2004) to accept
that it's time to honour the truest part of me I know.
Regards,
Cindy
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From: "Caleb Cluff" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:23 AM
Subject: Snap -sonnet: twelve frosts
Twelve frosts
Twelve frosts in a row and the new lambs are gone.
They lie in their special silence, where they had slept.
On their wool, a glistening amice signals them home.
The cold farmer stamps his feet, bangs his hands: "Jesus wept..."
Walking and counting I see the ewe, dead mid-parturition.
The blood-black birth sac like a burnt elbow bulges.
Her jaw is frozen open. This apparition
is enough, and enough: we begin our salvages.
Each skinny, knock-kneed corpse rattles into the tray,
out of reach of crow and fox and frost.
And mind. The ewe defeats me and will wait
for blunter fingers more used to loss.
In the cabin, turn key, and open throttle.
From the fenceline green parrots curl up from the wattle.
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