Nov. 6 Blue-Eyed Boy
Posting ahead for Friday. . . . 6 AM flight tomorrow. Blue-Eyed Boy "Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed." -- John Ashbery Maybe you need a reminder. Or maybe,...
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Toni, I love the hopefulness of this, the image of the train, and -- how it often happens in half-sleep, the morphing of images, the train into the rain. With the echo of the one word in the other....
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Me being me, I perceive the man in the grey suit as more of a threat than cause for hope. S2 is a poem on its own, and certainly the start of yet another great Toni poem. Feel free to appropriate your...
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Bingo, Greta. ("what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy, Mister Death?" -- e.e. cummings)
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I read the guy getting off the train as an ill-omen and trains also symbolize in my mind the source for much uproar in the name of "progress." The blue eyed boy reference makes the character at the...
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ooo, chilling. First, that quote - what the heck? If anyone is travelling towards me, it would be Death and that's how I read your poem Toni - and such a cold, flat image of him too .. and I know that...
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Have a good trip, Toni! Love the rain sounding like a runner, sloshing its way toward you, getting off the train all too quickly. Judy
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