Gary,
Excellent, but:-
your use of 'cuniform'
I've always understood that cuneiform was an adjective and that the noun was
formed as 'cuneiform writing'
Best
Roger.
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From: "Gary Blankenship" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 6:30 PM
Subject: New: "engraved as hieroglyphs"
"engraved as hieroglyphs"
beneath the debitage from civilizations
dead long before their gates shatter
and markets wither in desert air
hidden among brick foundations turned to dust
petrified offal, broken carboys
and fragments from the Book of Adam
an amulet
encrusted with the cuniforms
of profane words
disguised
as holy
protected from long nights
or lost to whatever rays
seeps through the cracks in our tomb
inside
the seeds wait
11/22/02
Nov Sharon Svendsen at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html Writer's
Hood at http://www.writershood.com/ Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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