I like 'a distance', L but 'straight as sunflowers' throws me. The petals,
the stalks? Probably just me but I think of Van Gogh' sunflowers which are
berzerk curly or is that what you intend with the image, given wobbles in
final stanza?
Bill
On Wednesday, December 16, 2015, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Her hands, between prayer and defence,
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> part to succumb to decency;
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> arms go to her side, hands below.
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> Her eyes contract with no one.
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> She looks into a distance,
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> fingers straight as sunflowers
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> downwards to the centre of the earth;
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> but she wobbles on the balls of her feet,
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> tense, marking time.
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