lester

connected meanderings
2002-04-28 17:33:49 (UTC)

worked on a new naOmi poem for a wallhanging

naOmi

there’s an eloquence of saying nay
as in my second oldest daughter's second name,
that wafted through the air
of Fort Tryon Park, giving us our
answer to her middle name
though at the moment we didn’t know just then
that she, not he, the sunniest she one could imagine,
would emerge, Martha yes, but also,
naomi, the three syllable word with those
middle of the alphabet up-rounded letters
connecting with three vowels, abetters
to the consonants
and – deceptively – though with resonance.

yes, there's the nay of saying no, but also O
the open-mouthed vowel of one syllable,
that usually agrees (Oh!) and, of course,
me, always a resource,
but misspelled in that there's an i
at its end – well, i isn’t all wrong in that there’s a me
to tries
to be there all along
but with a different song,
as the giver
not receiver;
thus, when keying quickly,
with typos, my
fingers spell you as yoiu,
that is, I insert an i into you;
well, this quote from Paco Rabonne
caused me to ponder:

“People don’t really look
“at one another.
“They only see themselves by mirroring
“themselves in others
“and then
“by creating their image
“based on how others see them.”
The central o is not a mouth you see
But her tonsils mirroring, naOmi.

Lester Auden April 2002




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