Monday, November 20, 2006

Text

I tend the mobile now
like an injured bird

We text, text, text
our significant words.

I re-read your first
your second, your third,

look for your small xx,
feeling absurd.

The codes we send
arrive with broken chord.

I try to picture your hands,
their image is blurred.

Nothing my thumbs press
will ever be heard.

----

Carol Ann Duffy

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You know, I don't spend nearly as much time txting as I used to...my dirhams last longer, but sitting in traffic is so much more boring now! :)

10:03 AM  
Blogger ether said...

Good Lord, she's really something.

4:12 AM  
Blogger 100hands said...

She is rocking it.
Knocked me back 50%.

8:57 AM  

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