You're obviously not an Italian opera fan, Patrick (O numi eterni! etc).
But I'm still pondering "inflect remorse"... Quizzically grave lines,
Doug, like a fragment of something ongoing, moving.
mj
Patrick McManus wrote:
>I bet that I was the only one who had to look up numinous
>Nice one douglas
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>is only one death
>numinous no
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>mention of but one
>even as so
>many others die in
>other places & do none
>remember them or
>inflect remorse
>as if before death all
>memories reach equally out
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>Wednesday April 6 2005
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>
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
>(780) 436 3320
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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>He saw the dark as a ragged garment
>spread out to air.
>Through its rents and moth-holes
>the silver light came pouring.
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> Denise Levertov
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