I enjoyed the sense of the move in motion, Andrew.
& those suddenly weird neighbours ih your bookboxes...
You never mentioned this was coming.... (but it sort of explains your
silence here the last little while...)
Doug
On 1-Nov-05, at 10:37 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> i)
>
> this world is wired
>
> puppets
> impulsed by
> words
>
>
> ii)
>
> i pack a thousand books
>
> words weigh heavily
> on my wrists
>
> only time to read
> tops of
> cardboard boxes ...
>
> forgive me, books.
> i throw you
> together without
>
> checking the neighbourhood -
> Dickey with Alan Watts,
> Andrew Taylor with Dylan.
>
> i run between houses
> like Ponting
> on a good wicket
>
> my 'puter stays put
> humming like
> a bored barman
>
> I will carry him across
> the new threshold soon
> him so full of words
>
> and arms that reach out
> to all the continents
> of the whirled
>
>
>
>
>
> Andrew Burke
> Mt Lawley
> 2 Nov 2005
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
The blank page
as merely an interval or
an intrusion. We could not rescue it
nor could we huddle, as if the page were
big enough.
Kathleen Fraser
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