Thank you, Doug, for your kind words. Ah, when fathers fall. A literally
dizzy time. Off to Market to touch spring things.
Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> A fine obit, indeed, Stephen; you have every reason to be proud.
>
> And the ongoing Sappho bits: terrific also.
>
> Doug
> On 13-May-05, at 2:53 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>> As some of you know, my father passed away a week ago. I have posted a
>> nice
>> obit published yesterday in the Contra Costa Times - which focus' on
>> his and
>> my mother's environmental (trail and park) accomplishments on the East
>> Bay
>> Shoreline of San Francisco and San Pablo Bay (California) - an era
>> where
>> Civic (citizen) involvement and activism could still call the shots. A
>> physical ode to landscape poetry - where park and trail become
>> landscape for
>> the poem. Or so I now think.
>>
>> Today, backing away from death stuff, put up some fresh pieces from
>> Sleeping
>> with Sappho. Enjoy.
>>
>> Stephen V
>> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>>
>>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
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>
> There are places named for
> other places, ones where
> a word survives whatever happened
>
> which it once referred to. And there are
> names for the places water comes and touches.
> But nothing for the whole.
>
> Bill Manhire
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