hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
open scissors beside a vase of water
-- Eve Luckring
(Frogpond XXIX.1, 2006)
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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
open scissors beside a vase of water
-- Eve Luckring
(Frogpond XXIX.1, 2006)
About the making of this stunning one-liner,Eve Luckring says:
As for the "story" here, this poem came to me suddenly as I was preparing to cut some flowers for a bouquet.
I filled the vase with water and got the scissors out of the drawer and then something distracted me and I laid them both down on the table before heading outside. When I returned to continue with the task at hand, it struck me both visually and tactilely how the opening in the scissors and the opening of the vase would soon embrace a flower stem in very different ways. the V of the scissors and the O of the vase presented a contrast of shapes. I also could…
Lovely!!
Hundreds of questions arising in my mind as to why the scissors are open.
Is that the vase is waiting for a bouquet or that waiting for the person to trim the flowers?
Subtle and filled with autumnal mood!