Tight yet unfurling syntax and therefore developing image ... Thanks, Doug.
(I'd be inclined to drop the first verse and start with 'how the aspens
lined' - a kinda WCW feel to it then.)
Andrew
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: snap 11 V 05
up north here only
a few days allow
this transformation
how the aspens lined
along the river bluff
mellow guardians
blanched tall standards
bare but not
barren begin
to float in
transparent green
gauze of new
ly unfurling leaf
buds thinly flexing
on the unruined choirs
Douglas Barbour
Edmonton Wednesday May 11 2005
(a recall snap)
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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