Sunday, January 06, 2008

Games have rules

Connie Bensley reminds me in some ways of Elizabeth Jennings. Perhaps because her poems, though universal, are very womanly

They are also very funny

As a sometimes addict of games of patience I love this one

It also reminds me, obliquely, of a very bad poem I wrote called I wore pink at my husbands funeral

Modus Vivendi

Each night, as he played patience
she stood behind his shoulder
.
Jack on Queen, she would cry
just before he spotted it himself
.
How was it then, that she murdered him
rather than the reverse?
.
Some games have rules
which are difficult to understand