The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 1/13/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Girlhood

If your bearded friend
helps you catch the trout
barehanded
in the pool of the dream
and you carry it in his pail
barefoot
up the rocky stream
to the playhouse where he fries it in his pan;
if you snip the dill
for the carrots and then swim
until your lips are bluer than the lake
where will it take you?
Not anywhere as pure
and primal as these sunstruck days
sistered by starstruck nights.
Don’t cloud the drowning
brightness of your eyes,
don’t answer my asking look
with anything but the truth,
don’t spill the fresh-picked
raspberries on the car seat
and stain your shirt with indelible blood.

Or spill them, darling.
How else will you know
the color of crushed time;
how else will you feel
what it is to change and remember,
to lose and absorb
this summer inside you,
xylem and phloem of your leafy future
already starting to spread its shade above us?

Jonathan Galassi


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RL

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good morning, my dear Retro..........

Ah, but this one is full of metaphors........

All of them lovely.......

I especially like...

how else will you feel
what it is to change and remember,
to lose and absorb
this summer inside you

Really lovely!

Thank you....:hug:

[RetroLounge]

2. Good Morning CP!

:hug:

Thanks for always posting in these threads. I look forward to your comments.

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

3. i have read this before--somewhere

are you starting to repeat yourself:P :hi:

[RetroLounge]

4. Damn, you are right...

Back in November.

I scanned my list and missed this.

Oh well, I guess sometimes a good poem bears repeating...

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

6. far out--

thank god for a minute i thought i was senile:P

[BarenakedLady]

7. Well there is always

E.E. CUMMINGS!!!!!!

You are just taunting me now.

j/k :hug:

[RetroLounge]

8. I'm not sure you could handle Cummings...

It might set you off on a flirtatious rampage thru the lounge...

:D

RL

[BarenakedLady]

9. Oh we certainly wouldn't want that to happen...

:evilgrin:

[RetroLounge]

12. Certainly not.

Could be tragic...

:9

RL

[BarenakedLady]

13. Someone is bound to get hurt

:7

[RetroLounge]

14. or just bound...

:evilgrin:

RL

[BarenakedLady]

15. You win...

I could never attempt to be as naughty as you.

I bow to the master. :applause:

[RetroLounge]

16. While you're down there...

:9

RL

[BarenakedLady]

17. I knew that was coming....

And I typed it out anyway...

[ganeshji]

18. Maybe you need to do some sort of RetroLounge Random Repeat.

You post a lot of good poems that bear repeating.

[FedUpWithIt All]

5. It looked familiar to me as well.

Ahhh i see it was already done. ;-)

[crim son]

10. This one, I like. Thanks, Retro. n/t

[RetroLounge]

11. You are welcome...

:hi:

RL