Sharon,
I'd have no problem with designating your work "a poem", although I find it
a bit too prosaic for my taste. The subject rhymes with some of
my "familial material", but at present I'm much less energized by those
matters and vastly more excited by Yves Klein (and the Nouveaux
Realistes). More on him in a moment.
Barry Alpert
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:25:12 +0200, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>not a poem, but a good snap I say.
>an interesting whole here, a bit of tragedy & nonchalance.
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>On 27/01/2008, sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> asked," "Is this a poem?"
>> telephone call with my mother
>>
>> she called last night
>> after watching an oprah show
>> about children of divorce
>>
>> she wanted to know what i felt
>> fifty-three years ago
>> when she left my father
>>
>> she said that she knew
>> she'd never asked and never
>> told me why
>>
>> she wanted exoneration
>> and i granted it
>> we all do the best we can
>>
>> and how much worse it would have been
>> had she stayed with an angry
>> drinking man
>>
>> she told me that when i was three
>> and she sent me to stay
>> with my grandparents
>>
>> i told them: i always know
>> when daddy comes home drunk
>> because he wakes me up
>>
>> and does any of this matter now
>> into this new century
>> that will close on us both?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> ~ SB | http://www.sbpoet.com | =^..^=
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