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From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: can't miss
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:49:52 -0400
It may be that you misread her symbolism. Isn't she writing about getting it
on with her horse? One could ask as well whether it was as good for the
horse as it apparently was for her. The horse, probably, would be too polite
to answer.
Mark the Neigh-Sayer
At 01:09 PM 3/15/2007, you wrote:
>Poetry Daily: Sue Sinclair, "Surrender"I just had to share this - today's
>offering from www.poems.com. I was so overcome that I wrote the following
>pointless note to the editors:
>I just want to say how much I enjoyed Sue Sinclair's poem "Surrender." It
>is a superb, even an archetypical, example of The Mainstream Poem. It has
>Light - twice - and the Heart, and Love, and Your Own Wants, and the Real,
>and even, for no extra cost, the Self! And a very sweet metaphoric Horsey,
>which must appeal to the pubescent girl in all of us. Looking at
>"Surrender," any poet burdened with an excess of testosterone or
>originality can only ask: How can I compete with work of this caliber?
>
>
>
> Surrender
>
>
> Sometimes the light, a horse,
> gallops into the room
> and demands you surrender.
> It paws the floor, snorts-
> and so you rise out of the low-lying
> cloud of the self, the half-dreaming
> wakefulness we call love,
> and into the cool air of the real.
>
> It shakes its mane impatiently,
> rears and kicks, its beautiful body
> demanding your attention,
> pushing its way in. Not
> that you're afraid, not exactly.
> But it shines straight into your eyes.
> And though the heart is small
> and cramped, barely large enough to suit
> your own wants, you retreat into a corner,
> make do with less. The only
> possibility when the world lifts its head
> and light pours from its back
> in quantities enough to drown you.
>
>
> Sue Sinclair
> The Malahat Review
> Winter 2006
>
>
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>
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