Re: One of Seymour's poems...

hmm...he's only "implicitly" in pajamas and robe...back to the drawing board...

>>> ANELLO Michael J 06/20/03 10:08AM >>>
not very poetic, but as bare and invariably ungarnished as possible for me (was Miss Overman able to read French?)...interesting, but one definition of "widow" is "An additional hand of cards dealt face down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder. Also called 'kitty'."

young lawnbound widower - 6
sitting pajama'd and robe'd - 7
spies the full suburban moon - 7
as white miss kitty - 5
rolls and with blessing - 5
bites his left hand - 4

34 baby.

>>> jrovira@drew.edu 06/19/03 01:52PM >>>
heh...that's a very, very good exercise, Michael. Will be fun to try.

Jim

Michael J ANELLO wrote:
> "A late poem of Seymour's is a six-line verse, of no certain accent but usually more iambic than not, that, partly out of affection for dead Japanese masters and partly from his own natural bent, as a poet, for working inside attractive restricted areas, he has deliberately held down to thirty-four syllables, or twice the number of the classical haiku."
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> Buddy says in his "introduction" that Seymour's last poem "is about a young suburban widower who sits down on his patch of lawn one night, implicitly in his pajamas and robe, to look at the full moon. A bored white cat, clearly a member of his household, comes up to him and rolls over, and he lets her bite his left hand as he looks at the moon."
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> I challenge anyone to write a sentence, let alone a poem, of thirty-four syllables that would in some way describe all of the above. I'll give it my best shot in a minute...
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