this warranted a sigh Andrew. it's quite exciting to find how the poem
gains a strangely childlike tone after "... a toddler blowing
bubbles".. the punctuation(lessness) helps this effect along. lines
10-12 are almost crushing, I imagined them spoken by a very young
child not with sadness but with the sort of breathless matter-of-fact
melancholy of little children. though then ".. is not out of the
question" is a reminder of the speaker's adulthood. there's a feeling
of daily background noise in this, of a crowd or slow traffic or city
birdsong. this is a wonderful, wonderful poem.
KS
On 21/03/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> it's a lyrical day
> i saw a bird in the sky
> and a toddler blowing bubbles
>
> all the banana bruises
> have healed
> on the fruitstand
>
> and the basketball players
> let the little ones
> shoot hoops
> my friend is dead now
> but a rainbow
> is not out of the question
>
> spring in china -
> washing dries on
> every balcony and window
>
>
>
>
> Andrew
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