And if she is running, is it literal or metaphorical? She could be running from addiction or illness or circumstance, I suppose.
Lori On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:28 , Cynthia Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >My questions: > >She seems desperate, is she dying? >Going to commit suicide? Wants to say good-bye to someone, anyone? >If she is imagining, is it a hallucination? Is she on drugs? (LSD) >She is sweating? Was she running from someone? > >Cynthia > > >On 1/28/07, Felicia Barra [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Okay, now that someone has mentioned gray clouds of exhaustion, is her >> relationship with her brother strained and maybe even though she's tried >> to >> make amends, he's not responding. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Listserv" >> [email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:14 PM >> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] AN INVITATION >> >> >> >I am an adopted child and I didn't think of adoption. But that would >> sort >> >of make sense, trying the same name in any number >> > of cities, you could be calling a person without really knowing anyone >> in >> > that city. I got a real sense of distance between the >> > voice in the poem and her brother, like maybe he held himself above her >> > somehow. >> > >> > Lori >> > >> > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:30 , Nancy Hagerty [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> > >> >>Why is she imagining standing high above Lake Michigan? >> >>Is her brother at the bottom of Lake Michigan? Or is he up in heaven? >> >>(gray clouds of exhaustion) >> >>Is her brother with her? Are they working together? Is he the one >> >>totally depressed? >> >>Is she trying to get a hold of his (her brother's) significant other? >> >>Someone who would have seen or talked to him more recently than she had? >> >>Could she have been adopted and now searching for whom she believes her >> >>family might be? >> >> >> >> >> >>>> The Phone Call >> >>>> Philip Levine >> >>>> >> >>>> She calls Chicago, but no one >> >>>> is home. The operator asks >> >>>> for another number but still >> >>>> no one answers. Together >> >>>> they try twenty-one numbers, >> >>>> and at each no one is ever home. >> >>>> "Can I call Baltimore?" she asks. >> >>>> She can, but she knows no one >> >>>> in Baltimore, no one in >> >>>> St Louis, Boston, Washington. >> >>>> She imagines herself standing >> >>>> before the glass wall high >> >>>> over Lake Shore Drive, the cars >> >>>> below fanning into the city. >> >>>> East she can see all the way >> >>>> to Gary and the great gray clouds >> >>>> of exhaustion rolling over >> >>>> the lake where her vision ends. >> >>>> This is where her brother lives. >> >>>> At such height there's nothing, >> >>>> no birds, no growing, no noise. >> >>>> She leans her sweating forehead >> >>>> against the cold glass, shudders, >> >>>> and puts down the receiver. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >> >>Mosaic mailing list >> >>[email protected] >> >>To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> >>http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> >> >>Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mosaic mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> > >> > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Mosaic mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
