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Re: 2nd Biannual OSLIST Restricted Form Poetry Contest

JA
Jeff Aitken
Sun, Apr 16, 2000 6:21 PM

will it work again?
look at their faces.
I did not sleep
a wink, as usual.

except for a dream:
grandma Shoshanna beckons me
to walk beside her -
narrow Carpathian shtetl path.

begin the circle walk.
slowly speak those words
and beneath them, hers:
I love you - you -

come, have some soup,
tell us your story!
rooms bursting with conversation
time for a nap.

One should always sleep on a poem, say I who did not do so. I will defer to
the judges as to whether a second try will count in the contest! :-) But I
want to send it around anyway. Jeff

Jeff Aitken
PO Box 1092
Inverness CA 94937
415-663-8789
ja@svn.net

will it work again? look at their faces. I did not sleep a wink, as usual. except for a dream: grandma Shoshanna beckons me to walk beside her - narrow Carpathian shtetl path. begin the circle walk. slowly speak those words and beneath them, hers: I love you - you - come, have some soup, tell us your story! rooms bursting with conversation time for a nap. One should always sleep on a poem, say I who did not do so. I will defer to the judges as to whether a second try will count in the contest! :-) But I want to send it around anyway. Jeff - Jeff Aitken PO Box 1092 Inverness CA 94937 415-663-8789 ja@svn.net