Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:47:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: John Muthyala <jmuthya-AT-orion.it.luc.edu>
Subject: Re: Blyton 


radhika,
did you have "Timothy" too? 

Famous Five on Puffin Island; thought puffin was some kind of edible 
thing; is this bird devoured with relish somewhere? 

anyone?

any new poems ?

dear cyborg folks,
I wrote the following poem about two years ago and I want to to share it 
with you. I had finished reading a few poems by Linda Pastan, 
the Maryland Poet, as I was working on this. Her lines preface my own. 
Since this is a published piece, guess I do not have to worry about the 
poem going all over town without me? but then who is ?me? "Me" "author" 
"weave of presence and absence"(dear Spivak). Published in "Prairie Light 
Review" vol XIV no 1 Fall/Winter 1995.

"Rabbits Whiskers and Solomon's Wives"

	Always save your pitty for the living
	who walk the eggshell crust of earth so lightly
	in front of them, behind them only shadows
				"Shadows"								
				Linda Pastan

She is small
this chit of a thing
twitches and curls
its nose
a rasp  berryblue

as I tell her
about the multitude
of silk dark boundaries
between dolls and guns

the first wet kiss
and lifting knees
how to be content
to be overcome,

that she is waiting
for sounds in 
a silent world;

soon she will know
that to touch the morning
like a woman
is a birth that will last a lifetime.

But first she will
tickle the rabbit's
whiskers leaning
against the mooon.

		johnM