I really like this Knut, but feel the game itself so fully that I
wasn't sure it needed the final few lines, especially the last which I
felt was do definitely implied.
Doug
On 21-Dec-05, at 2:14 AM, Knut Mork Skagen wrote:
> Hermetica
>
> My father-in-law plays a game
> with his grandchildren
> SUN-MOON-STARS.
> The sun smiles. Passes a hand
> before his face. The moon gapes,
> passes a hand.
> The stars, eyes, fingers next to the eyes, wink. Passes
> a shadow over the lawn, arrow-shaped,
> lifting a metal body
> from one landing strip to the next.
> Peels an oil film from the creek
> so waterbugs scatter.
> "Da-ta-da-ta!" and a drumroll, (gypsy voice),
> "Circus!"
> Magic!
>
>
> K M Skagen
> Trondheim, 21/12/05
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
the precision of openness
is not a vagueness
it is an accumulation
cumulous
bpNichol
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