Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (09/19/89)
Really-From: Jamie Andrews <jha%lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK>
walking to a restaurant for a late dinner friday night
the full moon shining through wracks of clouds
we passed one of these disused walls where the british
recordcompanies pay people to put up posters, motley
everchanging layer after layer of posters, new ones
each week covering the others
it was one of those things where
you take a step with one foot
and raise the other foot
but then you see something and <"Wow!">
you don't step forward you
reverse
and put your foot back down
and stare <"Is that who I think it is?">
no words
no name
no symbols
not even a frame around the picture, just
K A T E
kneeling in the sand with a handful of sand letting it
trickle through her fingers looking up and off to the
right as if the sand is an offering her hair very
dark and shadowing her face in monochrome
and saturday and sunday in edinburgh
and monday in glasgow
more and more of the same eloquent wordless posters
each one causing my heart to skip a beat
or two
and then passing a closed edinburgh record store late last night
an album sized record jacket with the same picture only
with words
KATE BUSH THE SENSUAL WORLD
could it be early
has something good happened already
will find out before you get this
sand