I like this Doug - what concentration, the lineation with maximum
effect, "being there", right. It takes a practiced freedom to write like
that.
Martin
Douglas Barbour wrote:
> snap: the new house
>
> the lot can
> barely contain
>
> coded as castle
> not palace
> fortress perhaps
> or prison
>
> an utterly rect
> angular facade
>
> bifurcate by
> centred double door
> small windows
> mirrored below
> battlements
> dull brown
>
> noting nothing
> welcome and
>
> yet to see a human
> being there
>
> 17 V 06
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
> The dew is on the vineleaves.
> My tree
> is lit with the
> break of day.
>
> Denise Levertov
>
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I didn't reach the destination of phoenix by myself
I passed the stage with the guidance of hoopoe
Hafiz/Parissa
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