[stylist] Poem - "Email" - Firstish Draft

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I agree as well. Even when I listed to an audio book I have to hold a book in my hands.  And yes great poem Jackie. 
Myrna



> On Dec 19, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Lynda Lambert via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Oh, I agree with jackie on this, too. There is something so precious and personal bout getting mail that one can hold in the hand - the heft of it in the hand, the feeling of something tangible. Even though I can no longer SEE the mail that arrives, I love the feel of it, smells, touch of the papers, and more. The thought that someone loved me enough to write to me so personally.  This is true of reading a physical, tactile book, as well.  I have a great collection of books and a library - this year I culled out about 400 of my books and donated to the local library for their fall fund raiser - bot, oh, I can never part with a book of poetry. They are objects, like a work of art, in my home and I cannot ever see that I would give any of the precious volumes of poetry to anyone. I do not even lend them out - to no one.  I know where each author's books are on my shelves - and I can put my hands on any author I want, whenever I want. I carry them about, move them around, and take them to my office on a different floor, and have stacks of them in many places besides the library. I sure understand this, Bill.  And, Jackie, that poem is wonderful! Lynda
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> -----Original Message----- From: Jackie Williams via stylist
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 1:28 PM
> To: 'William L Houts' ; 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [stylist] Poem - "Email" - Firstish Draft
> 
> Bill,
> I am not able to keep up with how prolific you are. Your poem gives great
> insight on why some folks always write a note instead of sending an e-mail,
> and what holding something in your hand means to many.
> I cannot help sending you one on the same subject. It is a cinquain, that
> is, 2-4-6-8-2 syllables, non-rhymed.
> 
> E-Mail
> 
> Alone
> at ninety-one
> he pecked out messages.
> Death came, from Cyberspace, sat in
> his place.
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of William L
> Houts via stylist
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:58 AM
> To: Writer's Division Mailing List
> Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Email" - Firstish Draft
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Gang,
> 
> Here's this morning's effort.  I've been meaning to get to this one for
> a while and finally, after realizing that I was not going to get any
> more sleep this morning, set out to get it down.  I think it's maybe
> half successful for an early morning jaunt, but your mileage, as always,
> may vary.
> 
> Happy Yuletide, everyone!
> 
> 
> --Bill
> 
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> Email
> 
> We name them email, our light-letters bright, and faster
> 
> than wheels, like horses photonical swift
> 
> and strange; how they change from a note without wings
> 
> or lifte to electrons and back, as if scorning
> 
> the air in between. But coursers and fowl can't carry the
> 
> metaphor now; our keyboards seize our greetings,
> 
> our griefs, and hurl our humanity forth:
> 
> our weddings, receipts, our taxes and statements
> 
> our shoddy conceits,our notes to gardening Mom.
> 
> I'm calm, even cheered about this switch or modern
> 
> advance,though something's surely betrayed:
> love letters to Mom, Dad's cartoons, Granny's
> recipe for spice-rich chicken.
> Such hands, our primate hands don't show on otherwise
> 
> luminous screens; we need paper for that,wood-skin and
> 
> black smelly ink. Understand, I write as well with cursor
> 
> ablinkon pristine white. And yet I think:
> 
> where is Granny?Whatam I?And where's our ape?
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> -- 
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> 
> "Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"
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