The chair
hugs me
holds me
...
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As ever, my dearest one, I love and adore your Tilly poems. In this one, I especially like the line 'in coat, hat, SCOWL and scarf, ' but each line pulls me in. For instance, the beginning of your being so cosily ensconced in the chair, and her firmness, nay, her insistance, that you are being taken for a walk...I have heard of being led by the nose...but love instead the idea of your 'being led by the heart.' 'Tis just wonderful, marvelous!
Wonderfully tender - - and beautifully compressed into a gem of a piece.... enjoyed every nuance - - especially your 'little girl talking my heart - for a walk'...10 from Fay..
this is so charming... little girls can do that to you (and then they grow up, and they continue to... :)