Yeah, Peter, very moving.
Andrew
On 18/08/06, judy prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Peter, this is a beautiful, moving work. You do the impossible nearly
> always---and in this poem even more stunningly: letting unforgettable,
> fitting images and poignant thoughts carry, build and deepen one another.
> How inadequate I feel describing your poem!
>
> Judy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Ciccariello" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:19 PM
> Subject: Late snap - A place for everything
>
>
> >A place for everything
> >
> > Seeing your life in pictures
> > So frighteningly historical
> > With a clear beginning and end
> > And filled with necessary blindness
> >
> > The landscape of your manufacture
> > Generating a fainter definition
> > One of courage sprayed with remorse
> > In sync, now, with the rain falling on this pale street
> > The damp gray of the photographs leaving
> > Holographic stains on my memory
> > And faint rectangles on the kitchen table
> >
> > After you left that night
> > I put the photographs away
> > Not knowing it was your last meal
> > Scattered across the living room
> >
> > I remember how you liked to put the dishes away
> > Put away put away put away
> >
> > There was a place for everything in your life
> > Almost everything
> >
> > Still, as the faintest of rectangles
> > Disappear imperceptibly in your absence
> > There is no place for this
> > As with everything now in your evaporating life
> > There is no place for this
> >
> >
> >
> > -Peter Ciccariello
> >
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
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