openings @
1/1000
faster than
the eye can
usually notice
shut
terrained
moment
movement
shadowed
leaves' lofty
turn
tuned to
wind's
empty immensity
immediacy
seen now
black
and
white
Edmonton 29.08.01: 0820
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
It sounds right, spoken on the ridge
between marine olives and hillside
blue figs, under the breeze fresh
with pollen of Apennine sage.
Basil Bunting
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