BlueIris
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Sun Jun-01-08 09:27 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 6/1/08 |
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"You Begin"
You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, this is a fish, blue and flat on the paper, almost the shape of an eye This is your mouth, this is an O or a moon, whichever you like. This is yellow.
Outside the window is the rain, green because it is summer, and beyond that the trees and then the world, which is round and has only the colors of these nine crayons.
This is the world, which is fuller and more difficult to learn than I have said. You are right to smudge it that way with the red and then the orange: the world burns.
Once you have learned these words you will learn that there are more words than you can ever learn. The word hand floats above your hand like a small cloud over a lake. The word hand anchors your hand to this table your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.
This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world, which is round but not flat and has more colors than we can see. It begins, it has an end, this is what you will come back to, this is your hand.
—Margaret Atwood
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Sun Jun-01-08 10:12 AM
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Olds followed by Atwood...
le sigh...
RL
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Sun Jun-01-08 10:15 AM
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Mon Jun-02-08 01:27 AM
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Beginnings...
This is so damn nice...
Thank you...
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Mon Jun-02-08 02:02 AM
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6. Sure thing! You know I love your comments the most. nt |
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