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2014, 6*, coffee shop, compassion, feet, identity, listening, love, meaning, patience, sitting, speech, syntax, talking, terrace
there are patient listeners
sit upright on wicker chairs on the terrace
just
the right foot wrapping
higher – lower
around the left heel
foot-poised
weighing
testing
every single ‘like’ and ‘so’ parenthesis and meander
of the talker –
litany of I and eye –
buoying with scansion
slight steer with syntax and closed bracket while
parsing the rejoinder
which might never need
be used
if the map is spread
wide enough
————w(O)rmholes________________________________|—–
coffee shop wormhole: Maidstone
compassion wormhole: we’re all the same age really
feet wormhole: happy birthday, my love
identity wormhole: Matildenplatz / & Luisen
listening wormhole: sniff
love wormhole: footfall
meaning wormhole: scattered
sitting wormhole: poised patiently for / hours
speech wormhole: Dr Strange II – … things are the same again
talking wormhole: letters to Mum V – carrying on in duty and love
mlewisredford 
Exactly why dialogue is so hard to write. If you write the way that people really speak, it’s damned difficult to parse. Reading radio interview transcripts of show I’ve listened to, what the speaker says doesn’t seem to make sense, and yet, it did when I listened to the show….
” litany of I and eye –
buoying with scansion”
yes!
The feet often carry the conversation…
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I follow … I’m right behind you; was that last phrase a footnote?
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