Reading Rimbaud & Tranter but sounding a Creeleyesque note, at least as
I read it now, Jill. Finely tuned...
Doug
On 30-Mar-05, at 5:27 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
> poised
> or posed
> at the limit
>
> sun
> there and
> behind also sun
>
> if
> the past
> is a metaphor
>
> truth
> dives lies
> into the words
>
> sun
> them and
> behind also words
>
>
> Jill Jones
> snapped Tuesday 29 March
> (reading Rimbaud and Tranter over a coffee)
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
He saw the dark as a ragged garment
spread out to air.
Through its rents and moth-holes
the silver light came pouring.
Denise Levertov
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