Sally/Doug, thanks for the comments.
Sally, your comments about the chimera are especially interesting to me as there are a lot of non-identical twins/triplets in my family and I think I must have read just about everything about them at one time or another. The chimera may have been there but certainly not consciously. I think this one started when I heard someone saying 'She really is her mother's daughter'. I started turning the phrase over in my head for a day or two and this poem emerged.
[log in to unmask]http://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 01:45:15 +0000> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: It was> To: [log in to unmask]> > I am beginning to get the hang of your poems Tina!> I like the last line particularly.> Were you thinking about this thing called chimera where the children of a > surviving twin are sometimes not genetically linked to their mother, because > the twin has more than one set of DNA? I have just heard about this & the > last line made me think of it again.> cheers> Sally> Sally Evans> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye> http://www.myspace.com/poetsallyevans> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tina Bass" <[log in to unmask]>> To: <[log in to unmask]>> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:53 PM> Subject: Poem: It was> > > > a bright, sunny day> when she ran through the house> naked, and laughing> (half-clutching her breasts)> > I was horrified...> flabby imperfection grated> > dimples; tidal rippling> > and still> > > I am not my mother's daughter> [log in to unmask]http://www.fatmandancing.co.ukhttp://www.myspace.com/fat_man_dancing
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