Tuesday, February 8, 2011

"YOU ARE NOT A SMALL WOMAN"

[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

8 comments:

  1. Too true. Things are only a sign when you want them to be...

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  2. Suddenly I'm looking for that borrowed copy of Viktor Frankl ...

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  3. Hi KM & Tomm

    KM: 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.

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  4. Poetry sings to the heart truer than prose in my opinion.

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  5. If you're feeling a little fragile, things do have a tendency to slide to the negative. I liked this.

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  6. love this.
    searching for cosmic signs
    while keeping yourself grounded by
    mucking around with the brutally honest.
    day in my life :)

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  7. Hi Michael, Martin & Rene

    Michael: 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!

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  8. 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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