a lovely diversion indeed for a Wednesday morning (here), Stephen.
Doug
On 11-May-05, at 12:34 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Love's limbs voluptuous & diversionary
> The body a wedge issue
> Wet cell & tissue:
> No one writes a love poem anymore
> "Straight from the heart" an oxymoron:
> An iris open, a-flop, lavender, barely a-shake in the breeze
> Love's toll to emptiness, a prickled measure
> Sheer leisure slowly or, sometimes, profoundly, even rapidly, sprung:
> One could go on like this, not get anywhere; the virtue of volumes
> Victory over circumstance, a poem but, no joke, an open
> Well, you do have to turn the handle and, normally, push
> To make it this, a fully open that's not - note the clarity - a door:
> Feast on it, love, as you will, yes, then, sweetly, fully, infinitely
> Adore.
>
> Stephen Vincent
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
O baby, get out of Egypt –
This history is not for you,
Get out of there, out of my path,
Out of my speechless mouth, the Egypt shrieking
a redundant, plundering tongue . . .
An ancient slang speaks through me like that.
Gwendolyn MacEwen
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