Sandra

[poliphilo]

You know those moments when someone comes to check up on your life and be amused by it- and the visitor is actually another version of yourself? Well, this poem is about one of those moments. 

I went and dug it out of the archive because today is a day just like the one it describes- cold and dank,  with the colours of things seeming to glow from within because there isn't any sun.

                                    SANDRA

                                    Heavy boned Sandra opens the gate,

                                    Out of the leaf-mould onto the lawn

                                    Of the orange-brick semi.  She smells of her day

                                    In a classroom glassed against sodden November.

 

                                    Sunless November, the forms are glowing

                                    With implicate energy.  Sandra says,

                                    "So this is myself as I am in my teens

                                    As a fashion-disaster and senselessly happy."

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I like it. I'm usually more competent to explain why I like things, but... it's probably the sensual smell/sightness of it and how it reinforces the theme.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Even though it was written so long ago it could almost be by someone else, it fits not only the time of year but the way I've been feeling lately.