yes, especially as the reason I grew taller in English is that, unlike ich
or io or je, I had shrank to only one letter and could so easily be missed,
overlooked, and left out quite. Ah woe is so. But as for 'ego' , it's all
lower-case.
2009/7/29 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
> Lovely, striking meaningful opposites [wet/dry; surface/undersurface; 2
> families; then/now; dire warnings/warm homecomings]---all which floats in
> sight above and below consciousness.
> Why not capitalise "I"? Despite other caps being absent, a lower-case
> personal pronoun jars [me, at least], when I'd rather stay in the poem, not
> stand outside it looking at a tiny "i".
>
> Best,
>
> Judy
>
> 2009/7/29 sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > today it's the koi
> > catching the light
> > as they emerge from dark water
> >
> > your family, my family
> > at the surface of dreams
> > so thin, that skin
> >
> > between today, and then
> > i go back, again
> > and again, i reach
> >
> > for you but grasp
> > nothing but fog, opaque
> > and elusive, i wonder
> >
> > how they will ever get me up
> > on that horse, the ranch
> > dry, as it always was
> >
> > snakes in the sagebrush
> > rattling their warning
> > the deep bell ringing
> >
> > cows coming home
> > home, home -- one kiss
> > that's all i ask
> >
>
--
David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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