what hornucopia can hold
such a backpack of c & w
bent notes strung out & interleaved
'go' gone
sound the lyric lists toward
images as thresholds
each one a door
way through or to
what singing note
to a future ear
waiting so long now
is she still
caught forever in those
cares and woes
the blackbird horning in
all ways again
Wednesday April 13 2005
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Hand and mind
and heart one
ground to walk on,
field to plough.
Robert Creeley
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