Douglas:
Thank you for this. And so fitting.
Gerald S.
> is only one death
> numinous no
>
> 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
>
> Wednesday April 6 2005
>
>
> 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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