Returning (excerpt) A return to original innocence: impossible? Ha! Go to the movie theatre and watch the grown men weep. * I will return of course as Cary Grant, someone suave out of Scott Fitzgerald, not the starved dog I was * Tom Wolfe said it: You can’t go home again. But you can return for holidays and having some laundry done * Scary teaching: one may return as a rock, a ceiling think of the labor of stillness of staying up there * May I meet her again, no matter our form in returning: perhaps I'll be a frog king gazing at a sunflower Lawrence E. Leone and Barry Spacks Lawrence E. Leone (Lelcfls@aol.com) and Barry Spacks (barry.spacks@verizon.net) used email to make this collaboration of stanzas (which they call “links”) each exactly 84 characters in length. |