Thanks, Bill, I appreciate what you say.
Although the circumstances may be similar in ways, the character here may
have additional issues: literal physical changes that brought about a
toughness that is supposed to protect the self, yet do something damaging
as well.
Sheila
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:57 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
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> I like this, Sheila. Reading House of Mirth at the moment and something
> here reminds me of Lily Bart’s predicament and her wretched, doomed
> sacrifices. Just a liitle thing: wondered why you might have wanted ‘a’
> heart?
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 at 1:20 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I knew before I knew
> > the harsh veneer
> > resistant to artillery and brambles,
> > and feelings that deflected
> > any urge to reach the soul.
> >
> > I knew before I knew
> > that tenderness had long dissolved.
> > A history of broken bones re-purposed showed
> > the mismatch between body and a heart.
> > And thus a practiced kindness
> >
> > perhaps to make a living,
> > softening the absence of interior
> > there to shield the present from
> > a vivid past, the haste
> > of losing how it might feel to be alive.
> >
> > Sheila E. Murphy
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