Thanks for your comment Andrew.
Yes, it is a prose poem - those short lines would
normally appear at the end of the previous. Funny
thing about prose poems is that line breaks can
still be (even if only fortuitously) effective -
which is sometimes helped by playing around with
margins...or e-mailing them maybe
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From: Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: In my dreams
> Nicholas - I really liked your poem - of the ram
and the hook, etc. - The
> format seemed to lose itself on my machine. Is
it a prose poem? The first
> par came like that, ten te second was full of
longish lines juxtaposed with
> short (very), and finally a paragraph of left
margin, ragged right. (I know
> justifying doesn't work on email, but the first
par seemed justified
> enough.)
>
> I'd like to keep it and use it in classes if
that's okay with you. That's
> why I am interested in getting your intended
format strictly correct.
>
> Andrew
>
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