Nice!!!
Robin
(Though to be strictly accurate, the ravens weren't gibbet birds -- corbies
were.
"There wir three corbies sittin on a wa ... " )
Johnnie Armstrong
(Some of my Best Friends were ravens, and you never mistook them for
ravens.)
Jus' a thot.
:-)
Ane Corbie.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 6:08 PM
Subject: snap
> Poetry Seeks Radiance
> (on a line misheard at a lecture)
>
> Poetry seeks ravens
> I thought he said,
> catching a dark feather
> from the gibbet birds,
> their proof of poetry's
> keen eye and murderous
> merciless beak.
>
> The only radiance here
> is the shining bones
> pecked clean, the purest
> possible form. If this
> is tumbled in its chains
> we must reassemble
> it with unflinching hands.
>
>
> Joanna Boulter
> Darlington UK
>
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