Thank you, Kasper.
On 21/03/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
> >
>
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Andrew
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