[New-Poetry] Books A Poet Should Own

[TheOldMole]

> the book  of death
> the book of love

from Situations:

...Cringing in her heart,

Elizabeth sighs as she recollects,

"My mother, damn you! But it wasn't art

That saved us. It was" ...sobbing... "it was sex!"



But as she speaks, Elizabeth dissects

The closely textured strata of her heart,

Wondering how much she's dismissed as sex,

Mundane, profane and soiled, is really art.



Her mother and her Major-was it art?

Elizabeth considers the effects:

Rhythm and symmetry-a basic chart,

Room for improvisation. She reflects,



And wonders, wonders, who wrote the book of sex?

In Chapter One, she loves with all her heart,

With someone from above to pen the text;

In Chapter Two, it seems they have to part.



Then Chapter Three. That chapter would not start

Till she recalled the meaning of romance.

Does Chapter Four show sex revealed as art?

She has to give her mother one more chance.




>
> On 10/25/06, James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yes, absolutely, though it be of sand!
>>
>> - Jim
>>
>> On 10/25/06, Helen Ruggieri <hruggier at localnet.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > a blank one
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: JforJames at aol.com
>> > To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
>> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:49 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Books A Poet Should Own
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>> > In a message dated 10/23/2006 9:25:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>> > elemenope at icubed.com writes:
>> > "The Book of Sand"
>> > Jorge Luis Borges
>> >
>> > Borges Selected Non-Fictions
>> > Penguin  (2000)
>> > ISBN: 0140290117
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