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[StarryNight]

Bit of a stretch, but: The words could have to do with geographic features.

fiery: volcanos
pique: Mountains (peak)
gorged: gorge
kava'd: cave?

The card itself looks somewhat like a map with two mountain peaks at the top with a red lava area between (and an X). The ribbon could be a river gorge.

No secrets between us: referring to the X between the 2 mountains?

These were suggestions made by someone else, just thought I'd throw them out for processing.

[StarryNight]

Extending that thought: how about "Lava"?

Fiery pursuit for a peak (pique)
gorged (a volcano)
boozed (oozing down the side?)
kava'd (hot like coffee?)

Hm... the similar logic might work for "sunset"

[firefox]

i looked at kava'd as: the drinking of kava

( Kava (Piper methysticum) is a traditional drink with calming properties and which is consumed according to ritual.)

or perhaps kava'd in the sense of getting a high off it, like a drug

so gorged: eaten a lot
boozed: drunk a lot
kava'd: inhaled/drunk some mild narcotics

the first line sounds shakesperean, so know to any bill s fans out there do any plays ring a bell with
fiery anger/resent
partying
revelation of secrets
word play

i dunno, just shooting up some ideas.

edit: on 2nd/3rd/4th consecutive glance i agree with cassandra that To at the beginning actually looks like Jo. So she is writing a letter to Jo, makes more sense.

[DogsHead]

More idea hurling:" 'tis all in vain..." in vein? as in blood as a key? Meh...

[tanner]

Fiery pursuit -- burning desire/ambition???

[BennyH]

[Scott]

has anyone tried calling the hint line? (it's a text message service really.) Not to cop out early on, but at some point we should see what sort of response we get fFrom them. we are sort of spinning our wheels here, sure, but it would be nice to get some sense of what to expect as fFar as hints, really.

[Leeravitz]

First line sounds Shakespearean, but almost certainly isn't (not least because it's not really a comprehensible part of a sentence). Although this may be pure chance, I think the first line is in iambic pentameter, but the others, frankly, don't scan - even the last, which has the same number of letters as the first, has its emphasis wrong for that to be the case.

I think it's clear that there is no direct quotation going on here, but what is interesting is the analogy attempted to make us think of this card as related to archaic writing. That's what made me wonder if we should be thinking laterally about it, and assuming it must be coded in some way that would have been appropriate had you been sending secret letters in the Renaissance/16th/17th century.

[RI_Barnica]

Is it possible that the first word is "Lo"? That would make the comma sensible and the line readable.

[cassandra]

See ffx's response above. I'm currently working with the word as "Jo."

[lummox]

It couldn't have anything to do with scrabble could it. Its a lexical game and the last line seems to be seperated from the rest of the poem by a dash. Like other people, I'm just throwing out ideas. Plus it could explain the X at the top, X has a score of 8 could be a key to something, or maybe not of course.

[cassandra]

It IS Scrabble!

[cassandra]

Okay, here's what I've got for a solve:

[lummox]

Wow, you got that quick, I've been thinking about scrabble all day and couldn't get anything like an answer. Cool.

[cassandra]

I've been pondering this one for 2 days Your post made me realize that there *were* all the letters of the alphabet in the card, and so it had to be Scrabble distribution.

So, thanks!