Thank you, Jill. I, however, have already sent my check
to Stephen (but I only used numbers with BIG holes
in them: i.e., 000000000s.
Hal
On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Jill Jones wrote:
> Very neat Hal. I enjoyed every line.
>
> Sonnets are great, I am finding. I do like reading yours.
>
> Thanks,
> Jill
>
>
> On Thursday, February 9, 2006, at 01:27 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> Sonnet: Bridge Over Troubled Markets
>>
>> Specialized endeavors: threading the cat, pummeling
>> pomelos. Dollar mixed in quiet trading. Ethicists
>> fault both parties in ongoing scandals. Retreating and
>> yet treating them as well as can be expected in wartime.
>>
>> Roiled water beneath the bridge of dreams. In such weather
>> one should be careful to wear a cap. Journeymen in trucks
>> devise new routes, detours around flooded roadways or
>> downed bridges. We’d thought the king was dead, but now?
>>
>> Shaping themselves to new tides and winds, the rocks sit
>> solid at the shore. Futurists graze out in the north pasture,
>> not far from here. No sense of urgency there. Everything
>> in its own time. No thing lasts forever. Even comets come
>>
>> and go. Small disturbances rattle markets without leaving
>> a trace. Epitomes of brevity, we each await our turn.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
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