[L.E. Leone herein examines relationships & portents. Enjoy!]
YOU ARE NOT A SMALL WOMAN
My friend Nancy Krygowski, the poet who is the reason I write poetry, writes to tell me she needs to write a poem and isn’t feeling poetic.
Aww, I say. What gives?
It’s marriage problems. Goddamn. Her engagement ring broke and she’s trying real hard not to see it as a sign.
Nothing is ever a sign unless you want it to be, dear, don’t worry, I say.
And: I am here, if you need to talk.
Maybe later. She’s on her way out the door to see to getting it fixed, she says, at a vintage jewelry shop run out of a converted chicken coop by an old Jewish woman who, according to Nancy, will tell you ‘you are not a small woman.’
OK then, I say. Call me later.
L.E. Leone
© 2010
Too true. Things are only a sign when you want them to be...
ReplyDeleteSuddenly I'm looking for that borrowed copy of Viktor Frankl ...
ReplyDeleteHi KM & Tomm
ReplyDeleteKM: Definitely LE's firm belief (I think)! Thanks for stopping by!
Tomm: Ah yes, now you're right on that. LE is a dyed-in-the-wool existentialist.
Poetry sings to the heart truer than prose in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteIf you're feeling a little fragile, things do have a tendency to slide to the negative. I liked this.
ReplyDeletelove this.
ReplyDeletesearching for cosmic signs
while keeping yourself grounded by
mucking around with the brutally honest.
day in my life :)
Hi Michael, Martin & Rene
ReplyDeleteMichael: Ah, the eternal poetry/prose debate. But yes, it can tell a strong kind of truth. Thanks for stopping by!
Martin: Glad you liked it--thanks!
Rene: Hang in there--I understand the New Englad winter this year is enough to get anyone down. Thanks for stopping by!
I like very much how when you start reading it, it feels like an introduction to a poem, but then you've just been drawn in to the poem itself.
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