Definite improvement, Lawrence, on something very interesting to begin
with....
Doug
On 1-Sep-05, at 1:35 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Bulky in top, and shorts and logos,
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> tanned round skull shaven to the brain,
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> it grins at the woman who's near it.
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> This is an automat gesture -
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> as a dog looks round, mapping itself
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> on to the moving pack, as a bird
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> flies because another bird flies.
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>
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> Lacking a sense of higher power,
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> it may be violent, may think
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> itself feral. It's dressed to fill
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> several familiar old images.
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> One sees the space as a pet, or a child,
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> glimpsing a common jeopardy,
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> jam-packed by courage without great risk.
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>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
not random, these
crystalline structures, these
non-reversible orders, this
camera forming tendencies, this
edge of greater length, this
lyric forever error, this
something embarrassingly clear, this
language we come up against
Kathleen Fraser
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