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Cards laid flat up and down can be interpreted in so many ways maybe it is in the grain of your face or my hands on the table

1- Derma Kaput on Apr. 3 2007

I really like this poem for its simplicity of expression and the way you turn the line breaks.   But with lots of poems I like, I make minor rewrites in my head.  I'd rarely mention them to anyone (because its terribly presumptuous) but here's how I approached yours:

Cards laid flat
up and down
can be interpreted
in so many ways

maybe it is in the grain
of your face or my hands
on the table

3- Anstey on Apr. 4 2007

Derma knows poetry.


  • stephan

4- Anstey on Apr. 4 2007

Possibly because he's so old he's had a chance to read it all.


  • stephan

5- Anstey on Apr. 4 2007

or maybe not.


  • stephan