Can’t wait to hear Bill’s response - which may be slow as he’s on the road in the far north of Queensland…
NB Millicent, you rewrite his line -
perhaps pointfully…
None of the above becomes one of the above,
I do wish we could see a Eduardo C poem about a violin…
Max
On Aug 16, 2016, at 18:23, Millicent Borges Accardi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The poem is almost a subtle allusion to gay sex. A schoolboy discussing handwriting and lusting after the other boys in secret:
> one of the above would have known
> what I was up to.
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> I'm reminded of one of Eduardo Corral's poems about a violin. . .
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> So many allusions: riding bareback, stirrups, bifurcated rib, forearm sprawl, the longer he went at it, pressed so hard, K's tight, neat "script" Even Peter Sellars (spelled differently, I know), the openly gay theater director. . .
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> A school boy watching the other students's muscles flex as they practice handwriting and imagining more.
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> On Aug 16, 2016, at 14:34, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> L pressed so hard on his bifurcated nib
>> that it splayed, sending out a shadow script
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>> B's bright text stood up vertically
>> looping over lines playfully
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>> O's letters raced; ps and qs lost their
>> bulbousness the longer he went at it
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>> Each of these styles I endeavoured
>> to replicate for as long as I admired the writer
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>> A's left-handed lurch to the right
>> required a forearm sprawl
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>> K's tight, neat script anticipated
>> his composed later life as a dentist
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>> G's letters leapt left and right randomly
>> Hard to emulate but I gave it a shot
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>> None of the above would have known
>> what I was up to.
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>> In between adoptions, my own script
>> tentatived on lined pages until
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>> I latched on to a new cursive hero
>> to marshal my letters.
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>> Peter Sellers could be any man
>> but drew a blank at himself
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>> No bareback writer, my ideas
>> trotted out but needed stirrups.
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>> bw
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