Loving words, Andrew. Loving feeling. The piercing of those selected
images, the deep understanding of the boy's being "drunk on words" and the
thoughts of first times.
Love it.
Sheila
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I’m not joshing you,
>
> I like the kid’s first book.
>
> Sure it has *young *written
>
> all over it, and there are
>
> huge failures there, but
>
> The daring! The rhythms!
>
> The searching! The knocking
>
> down of old rusty fences!
>
> The boy was drunk on words
>
> before he drank at the canon.
>
> A critic now says, *The poems*
>
> *were all right for their time. *
>
> As pink shoelaces were
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> for desert boots back then
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> and Pat Boone singing
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> *Friendly Persuasion.*
>
> Many a sentence has
>
> a first draft. I dip my pen
>
> in his ink
> every time I write.
>
> - Andrew
>
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