Thanks Janet - Further to what I wrote before -
>To be honest it's all over the place, slight, and the result of trying
>to write in a strange hotel room and from a strange emotional position.
>There's more in that shiny horned beetle than the rest, and there's not
>a deal in him. Ack.
I suppose, at the very least, that the words have struck some people;
but I'm still, on reflection, convinced that it was a process of
imperfect, garbled and somewhat maudlin thought. You know? When it's
'around' the notion, like a schoolboy too frightened to ask someone out,
hovering and dithering? Got to get in there and think.
Still - at least I'm not kneeling in front of the Flinders Street
clocks. The footpath is so dirty there.
Caleb.
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Subject: Re: Late snap - apologies...
Kasper says
> "... without myth" is splendid.
I agree.
> the rest is unconnected & uninviting (though the imagery bits are
clear &
> good).
It is hard to make a connection between the final stanza and the rest --
between the nature images and the people (beings?) and room.
The word "graceless" seems to be the key.
I wouldn't call it "uninviting" though. The reader is invited to find a
connection in their own way.
Janet
>
> On 01/02/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Am I so graceless, unable to see
> > at the first cautious whisper of rain,
> >
> > how the gum offers slight green gossip,
> >
> > how the dung beetle, anthracite teardrop,
> > goes about his task without myth,
> >
> > how your eternal face fell
> > as we left the room.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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