i do like this janet and i do like the way you keep trying to capture an
audience - with your absolute boldness
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: Poem - 'Nine levels'
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:51:32 -0700
I find this more interesting than the other one, janet. But then I never
worry about what a poem 'means' . . . The I/eye keeps shifting enough to
keep from falling into a mere lyric secure self...
I'm assuming you meant to keep each section separate....
Doug
On 3-Jan-07, at 5:32 PM, Janet Jackson wrote:
> Nine levels
>
> 1. Crouched on the floor, cold, I look up
> and see the brand-new stars.
>
> 2. The air bubbles with starlight.
> Shout, cry, laugh, jump up.
> 3. Chant, crowd, surroundcloud, raincloud.
>
> 4. Feet still bound in boots of ancient skin,
> I wash my broken eyes in rain at last.
>
> 5. I never knew there were so many all-singing angels.
>
> 6. Observe the unedited stars
> and sigh to their starfire.
> 7. Bouncing in the doorway,
> I tear off all my masks.
> 8. In the surge of suns and planets take this skin.
> 9. Melted, spread and remade
> as plain space and as the rainbow.
>
>Janet
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>Poems at Proximity:
>http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>
>You cannot love alone
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>
>
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