Ha, & then just down my inbox, that small cut I suggested, & it does sound better (still wonder at the opening stanzas).
Doug
On Jan 28, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Depression Crossing
>
> No zebra this crossing
> that would suggest even steps
> hopping between blacks
> whites popping up regularly
> this crossing sometimes
> muskrat meek
> mostly irascible lioness
>
> this cross to bear
> dread risks involved even
> in crossing the room
> cutlery clanking on plates
> echoing my head frazzle
> daring to disagree
> the eggshelled procedural path
> never quite knowing
> when conversational foot
> will crunch
>
> venturing verbal gambits
> asking any question
> requiring a response
> and isn't that all of them
> hair trigger fraught
>
> seeking to align a mood
> to reach a sharing
> putting natural mood on hold
> crossness to be steered around
>
> then
> the lifting
> or rather the letting down
> of the communication drawbridge
> when did this happen
> become possible
> has it been available and undetected
> must have been my fault
> I the cause
> of this this exasperation
> this deep and until just now
> unshiftable sense of desperation
> this mood mire
> how now words pass
> unloadedly
> for a while
>
> where's the we I thought we had
> either side of the bridge we are
> are we crossing together at all
> or only meeting in the middle
> from time to time
> and withdrawing
> to our sides
>
> bw
> 29.1.14
>
Douglas Barbour
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