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" > <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> > 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 > >>Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > >>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 > > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > > 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 > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > 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 Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org 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.
