Knut welcome back did youlist to the left or right but glad that you are
afloat again
When I read this it came over in two ways first of peace and tranquility
then of a background menace-100 pens scarey or is it scary??
-oh well that's just me
P gammel P
PS any news of Árni?????????????????????????????
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Sent: 22 June 2006 22:06
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Subject: snap -- 21/06/06
I've been on "list silence" for a good while now, and what better way to
break it with a snapshot? A little late, but written on time, for what it's
worth. This one comes, for a change, from Boulder, CO, where I'm subjecting
myself to the vagaries of the Naropa Summer Writing Program (not to mention
subjecting my unsuspecting Norwegian family to jet lag and 90-degree highs).
State Birds
#23 (of an imagined sequence)
tennessee in eighty-six and dark crick, twitch
tree-bound heartbeat through the
invisible brown of the run-off ditch
a cicadian cloud of song humming hugely
like a power station
beat by kilowatt beat harmonious dark
and holy
but oh! afternoons
the deciduous blaze leaf wind thrill
lapping of the lake
a hundred pens
inscribing turtles on the shore
mocking
birds
in Boulder
no mockingbird's but
its song is in everysong
the
flap
of its broad
grey
wings
thunderclaps over the Rockies
--Boulder, June 21, 2006
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