Kasper is right, but the comet set me to the idea of a theft, and then a
thief, and then Christ's thieves. Not that the snap is in any way
claiming that profundity. It is simply what I saw when I saw the comet.
Cal
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Sent: Thursday, 25 January 2007 11:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Snap Wed 24/1
I interpreted the seam to be as of a pocket, but the idea I got was that
the
comet is sealed away to be kept & treasured. 100% metaphor
KS
On 25/01/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> This is rather beautiful, like the comet...
> but I am confused as to what we are supposed to imagine happening.
> The comet is cut out of the sky and put into... someone's skin??
> The twig is used to prop up the sky afterwards?
>
> Janet
>
> > Penknife
> >
> > Last night a comet bleached our sky
> > I took a penknife and made three cuts
> >
> > undid a seam to put the comet in
> > sliced a vein to dye its tail
> > and cut a twig
> >
> > to prop that undeserving night
> > from where it had been taken
>
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
> http://www.proximity.webhop.net
>
> The choice is between nonviolence and nonexistence.
> Martin Luther King Jr.
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>
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