Could be, but maybe not of a ship, nor in water.
- Jim
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Patrick McManus <
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> Shipwreck???
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of James Cervantes
> Sent: 31 January 2011 16:42
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> Subject: "Puffball Acceptance"
>
> *Puffball Acceptance*
>
>
>
> I receive this communication irresistibly, still more so
>
> its contents as I cross the lawn to Dora
>
> sitting on a garden-seat under a lilac. I connect
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> with one of the learned professions of boats;
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> a favorable wind blowing, the signals for sailing
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> at her life upon her: to curl her hair, make sorrow,
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> hope, or disappointment. My heart turns
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>
> when she shows it to me. It was a town on the Upper Rhine.
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> Glancing around, I make a suitable reply. I observe how she rises
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> as tarnished as the others. We grasp each other
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> by the hand again, fatigued, attended by a modest
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> little parlor-maid in blue. "No. no," cries Emily,
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> clasping her hands together. "It must be passionless air,
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> that it seemed as if nothing could disturb."
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>
> -- Jim
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