GR translation: almond fringes

[David Morris]

Yes.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So the "almond" refers to the color then?
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 7:28 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think almond fringes are his blond eyelashes.
> >
> > David Morris
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Mike Jing <
> gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> V102.18-26   Gottfried, in the cage, watches her slip her bonds and
> >> go. Fair and slender, the hair on his legs only visible in sunlight
> >> and then as a fine, imponderable net of gold, his eyelids already
> >> wrinkling in oddly young/old signatures, flourishes, the eyes a
> >> seldom-encountered blue that on certain days, in sync with the
> >> weather, is too much for these almond fringes and brims over, seeps,
> >> bleeds out to illuminate the boy’s entire face, virgin-blue,
> >> drowned-man blue, blue drawn so insatiably into the chalky walls of
> >> Mediterranean streets we quietly cycled through in noontimes of the
> >> old peace. . . .
> >>
> >>
> >> Does the "almond" in "almond fringes" refer to shape? Or something else?
> >> -
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> >
> >
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