Shapes

"Micromelismata" by Michele Leggott graphs quantities and quantities of little kisses and its layout on two side by side pages (in DIA) (re)traces lip to lip contact. Having dwelt in that poem it is perhaps no wonder that I see in the layout of the first lines of "Phrases from Orpheus" by D.G. Jones the picture of a key. A symbol not unrelated to the poem’s theme:

There


is


a


     pardon guaranteed


prison
behind the eyes


     by death

Look at from the side one almost sees a key with its handle and its teeth.

And so for day 173
05.06.2007