List: I’m just the type…
I'm just the type for whom no end is suffix (ient): tap (drip, drip, drip) where is the beer, the syrup, the flow in this day? clip (ed) to the dock do I mean to to say kissed where my ship comes in or pinned to the dry velvet of a leaf? finish (ed) board (ing) shall I wave my handkerchief as I sail off or thank the landlady for lunch as I wipe my lips sliding my legs across the polished wood? I must be at least two tired to get anywhere, looking in wonder through the iris that will bear up under the snow.
~ by bonniemcclellan on December 22, 2010.
Posted in Art and Observation, Life In Italy, Poetry and Translation
Tags: Art, Bonnie McClellan, my work, poetry, polyvalent words, winter in Lombardia
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I love the playfulness with which you tacklerumble the language Bonnie. I feel like a pedestrian on a bushwalk being leapt on from behind by a cyclist with a late-sounding bell and a tickle addiction!
Thanks Brad, I’m having fun with the polyvalent words. I found quite a few looking at your piece on the crescent moon…”wax” is amazing. Hope to see you at IPM 2MXI.