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introduction to poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

-- Billy Collins

Every tear you cry
Every doubt you have
All of these things will pass away
All of your big mistakes
Your little old heart would break
Wishing that i could take them back
Write down the things you don't want
Burn them in a glass
Write down the things you dream of
Make a paper plane that flies to Heaven

-- Jann Arden

Thursday, September 07, 2006

an adventure

Just a quick post. A very happy quick post. We're going to Paris!! :-)

It was a bit of a last minute thing. The excuse is that we deserve a break after the dissertations, but to be honest we'll find any excuse to go. We're catching an early Eurostar to Disneyland Paris on Saturday morning (ended up being less than half the price of a Eurostar into Paris itself) and then using that as a base for a couple of days. Paris on Saturday afternoon. Disneyland on Sunday. Back to Paris on Monday before catching a 6:45 Eurostar back to London.

Disney and Paris in one trip!!

Yeah. I'm a little over excited.

posted by Anna at 5:48 PM

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