very engaging, very simple & bleak & pretty & bittersweet. lovely.
how's that for adjectives.
KS
On 12/02/2008, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Another list of things that won't be fixed. First two, there may be more:
>
> i)
>
> The catch in her voice
> as she says "in those days
> things were different"
>
> meaning particular things
> not speakable then and not
> speakable now
>
> meaning the aura
> around those things
>
> and all things touched by it
>
> ii)
>
> Nostalgia bespeaks a home
> imaginary as may be
> where you or a part of you
> are even now indoors
>
> sheathed against the day
>
> the ram comes through the wall
> to make the house secure
> peace comes to the town
> sector by sector
>
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