It was pure poetry.congratulations!Get them published and I'll be the first to buy!(you may have done it already.I'll be happy to know).Wish you success.

Thanks Vulcan that means a lot. And best wishes to you!

Sorry again!"Until,like welded joints,they freeze"to the end is wonderful.Enrapturing!

funny to think of a benign medusa. funny to think that someone with looks so wild would worry what others think...

I really do love your poetry. I carry your images around with me. The stablehand and now these men. The transposing of the stereotypes is wonderful, and myth is eveything. Will they say that, or is she insecure? Concise.

Oh Chrsitof, kiss, kiss, coverer of bridges and rocks with colored cloth, kiss, kiss, I carry your words with me into the shower each morn and watch the "rising". Please lets run away into some library and have a deep dark literary journey, just like the one in Byatt. Kiss, Kiss. Smooch, smooch. Nice poem, made it all the way through without wandering in the middle trying to out metaphor yourself. This one succeeds and I like. I am going to the shower now, baby!!

And not to be picky, but I do not like the sound of the contraction at the end. they'll. I read it with "they will" and liked the sound and flow better, but hey that is me...off to the shower with this ringing in my head.

Why do you care enough to comment?

I was commenting on the poem. And giving Christof, the highest of praise. Many of his other poems wandered a bit trying to be too heady. Simple subjects deserve heady treatment, but make sure all the cogs are there. I am not simply going to mush, mush, kiss, kiss, over poetry that looks good on paper, but upon a closer look, needs a bit of tuning.

But you were also commenting on my conversation with Christof. Why?

Because it is cute and endearing and in a public place and I am ugly and a hater of the ugly children.

oh come on, you're an educated man. You know everybody wants to go to bed with everybody else. They're lined up for blocks. I'll go to bed with you they won't miss us.

hey, can i get in on this going-to-bed business? i'd not be missed...at least for a few hours, anyway.

What do you say p&k? Beautiful sobbing high-geared f**king and then we'll ly like silent deer tracks in the freshly fallen snow.

Therefore, you do not buy my "I'm a six year old theory?" Shall I change the about me? I am an ugly man, educated in the east, living in Misery, who is a hater of the ugly people. My dear, I am a strongly committed ugly man. What shall my other think if I am scurrying off?

Hell bring her along we'll make it a foursome.

maybe she'll--think of men waiting--to get in on it. personally, i prefer a higher man-to-woman ratio, but, what the hell.

Well I'm off. I've got talk to a group of gang-bangers about abstinence, safe sex, and getting an education. No joke. I'll be thinking about all your loving naked bodies the whole time. Well in your case p&k I guess it's your ugly naked body. Have fun kids.

Good grief. I obviously went home too early yesterday. If I'd hung on a bit I could've joined in with you lot. I was just in the mood too. What a sexed up place this is.

Ha! cheers!