This is gentle, lilting, intellectually challenging, Jill. There is a
leaping element, connective tissue, projection beyond certainty that
transcends any easy dichotomy between certainty and uncertainty.
The words "I want" lend impulse and strength. The words "possible" and
"personal" seem to call upon the word "work" to be used twice, because it's
needed twice.
Setting down assumptions. The idea of a river. Ahhhhhhh
Thank you. Sheila
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I think we’re past the polka-dot world
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> I want to touch the beholden
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> I want to hold your hand as though
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> that’s possible. I can’t pretend I don’t know
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> Today it seems as though the rivers work.
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> So many of them, working in spite of us.
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> I can’t pretend those ideas can be laid
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> I want to lie down with you
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