thank you for sending the crib, Arthur. your poem suggests a whold new
lexicon of -not emotiocons, perhaps, possibly eroticons??
P-P
>From: Arthur <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New sub : an experimental piece.
>Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:17:33 -0000
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>Gary's poem " A poem to blame on Mary" encourages me to dust off this early
>experimental piece. Early in the sense that I became interested in
>typographical convetions and tried to integrate them with meaning. A crib
>for the first strophe is available on request.
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> all-cuntaining } . { fucundity
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> after the only ( ; ) race I ever won
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> fus ( 8 ) ion
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> mi- (:)- to -(::)- sis
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> soon mi-tos-anfingers-gros-is
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> foe (9) tus
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> bewildering qu(i)ckening of being
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> in
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> incurlicue
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> (laplocked)
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> turning blindly to the muted thrum
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> drumming
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> smothering mothering wombth
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> songrungringing
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> floating down the fluted whalepaths
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> i
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> fruit
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> dangling
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> ripening towards my time
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> in pose
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> poised
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> proceeding (to the tunes
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> of ancient dances)
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> brushing the strangling tangling
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> lifecord away
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> in the struggle to
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> I.
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> Then Ied,
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> now milksilkysickly
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> and dumpling plump.
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> Allidays are
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> Mouthering Soothday.
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>Squinting at the squirts of light,
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> bleared scintititillatance.
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> I swill my own apron
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> with warm and private spillings.
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> A cooing lull-ullaby
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> of a humcroon cuddling
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> a honeycoddled canoodling
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> as I browse
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> deep in the snughuggling breastbreaths.
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>Harvesting, mustering, decoding, storing,
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> the wonder of my own fingers,
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>these odours mine, yell of my own yell,
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> !conundrumbervating earthundertones!
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> I sing my own song.
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Perpetua Pullman
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