[mignon ledgard]

Dear Cally,

So much has been said in praise, and that’s all I have for your beautiful and touching art.

This time, it’s a brief stop to thank you for your trust in your readers, as you leave out capital letters and give the space to navigate at our own pace.

I hope the reader who suggested that capital letters be added won’t take offense. But I had read it and floated with it before the caps and now they stop me before I even begin to read. Each cap is also a full stop, due to the double spaces, which I love. It has become a bumpy reading from which I no longer derive the pleasure that opens my mind to more assimilation of all that continues to appear, as your poems usually do. I hope you will reconsider..

After the second visit, I noticed a turn at the end of the poem. The knight swapping his hood took me to different places, one pause was the joke, another, psychology that uses the knight’s move in the game of chess to define a child’s way of thinking: lateral. The surprise, the unexpected. Your poems are this surprise and the unexpected becomes the expected. I would need more quiet time to be able to verbalize. All good.

Shamelessly selfish,
and so good to see you posting!
~ mignon