About six months ago Maz posted a poem at the Gazebo. It was the last poem I saw her post and it was just before the Gazebo crashed. I'm pretty sure the poem was called "Lilah". It was one of her "story poems" -- that's how I thought of them.
Lilah was living in a tent, I think. It was in an earlier time period. There was an oil lamp in the tent, I think, and Lilah's basket in the corner. There was something in the basket; Lilah had been out gathering or cutting herbs, I think. I believe there were scissors in the basket, though it might have been a knife. I remeber Lilah picked up the scissors and suddenly cut off all her long, hair, so she had no hair left at all. Then she went outdoors -- I picture it as night -- and she cast the hair into the fire. Then Lilah went back into the tent and picked up a polished bowl. She could see her reflection in the bowl. She could see her small head, almost skull-like -- that was how the poem ended, more or less those words. Though I don't have the poem, so I can't remember exactly.
It was a wonderful poem, which I told Maz in my critique. And because of the name "Lilah", I thought it might be Delilah. Who might have cut off her own hair after having cut Samson's -- like a continuation of the story. Maz somethimes wove stories around characters from literature, history.
I was hoping she might tell me when she replied to the critiquers, but she didn't come back, and about two weeks later the entire Gazebo crashed and disappeared.
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