Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:56:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lakshmi Gopinathan Nair <lnair-AT-uclink2.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: your mail


Thanks so much Uma and Radhika for the encouragement.  I really
appreciate it.  I've only shared a few
writings here and there with a couple of close friends--and even then the
nervousness I felt...What is that feeling?  

Radhika, I visited your home page and read and read.  You wrote in one of
your poems something...how do you know what is "good" poetry...you know
when you feel...I felt.  I'd like to write a poem about it maybe...but
right now my mind feels cluttered.  I'm worrying about what to eat for
dinner...

 Another thing you wrote which really touched me was how you have a poem
in your heart for everyone you love.  I feel that way too.  That statement
inspired me so much.  It's wonderful to share thoughts, isn't it?  I just
loved "seeing" you like this.  My mind and my heart just spiralled outward
like long, twisting branches, reaching...Of course, "reality" reeled them
back in before I got too far outside myself.  But they've been stretched.
And they feel more limber now.  Thank you.

-Lakshmi