memory twists & resists across sixty years yet this one has always
it seems been there as i always remember it the same way or is it
the story it's become in my mind that somehow stays the same as
i look up at my mother standing there a shadowy silhouette above
me dark against new bright light streaming through the window now
she'd raised the blinds (always down for years now? always? i
cannot remember that or not) telling me this is such a great day
dougie the war is over isn't that a great thing?
VE Day memory Wednesday May 7 2005 (1 day early)
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I don’t need to
hold back here
in the union
of forms
Charles Olson
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