Monday, September 18, 2017

It's Not A Poem About Duck Comments

Rating: 4.0

Under a mango tree a girl is cutting the stems of Sajina into pieces
Keeping it's tail up a dog is licking it's leg
Why the hellits thigh's flesh isn't fit to be licked
Wounded by the knife she is rubbing off the blood by her scarf
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Lantz Pierre 18 September 2017

I'm spellbound by the scenario painted here. It seems a little like a whole in my trousers, something's missing but a spider's web of threads reach out from all sides trying to connect. Trying to make whole again what was, before the hole was noticed, totally natural and without need for comment. I could probably, I think go through the poem line by line and image by image and extract symbols, historical, cultural, mythic. I think what has been cut allows a view previously denied. I'm enchanted. There is magic here.

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