very nice, a practically perfect parallel at the end. great repetition.
KS
On 17/01/07, deborah russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Switch
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> Our morning assignment; Role playing, 101...
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> She asks if I would like to paint a pear.
> I am the patient, she is the art director.
> In the mind of Alzheimers, we switch roles;
> the patient is compliant, pliable like clay
> melting in sunlight; smiling, seems happy,
> not knowing right from left.
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> I am patient with the patient - she reaches
> for the brush, the paint. With her right hand
> she dips, dips, dips, dips the tip of her brush
> in water.
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> I guide her hand to the paint; yellow pot, then red.
> She dips into yellow, yellow, yellow - red, red, red...
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> I remember Lake Ashi. On the right bank - the
> Tori and a red boat suspended in smoky mist.
> The water; swish, swash, swish, swash, swish.
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> Deborah Russell
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