that format/enjambment problemo could have to do with gmail's rich
formatting tool, which allows for underlines & boldtype & whatnot. it also
makes the paragraphs/lines of every email wider than usual. it can be turned
off too.
but thanks Doug, all this will be kept in mind if/when I edit. :)
KS
On 10/01/07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hmmm...
>
> I tried to send this with Fred's post at the end, but jiscmail refused
> it, although they had let Fred's through... Anyway, here it is:
>
> Things are a bit wacky at my end it seems. I'm getting responses before
> the poems they respond to, & I'm certainly glad I got Fred's response,
> Kasper, because the poem looks right in his post, but was stretched all
> over the page in the one from you (that prosey lack of line breaks
> again).
>
> Given your answer, I'm not as bothered by the pear, although I agree
> that the note about the Dali quote seems unnecessary; the images can
> stand on their own (should be able to, or not)...
>
>
> & now I see Patrick's point, as well, but would keep the pear more than
> the whale, if keeping much of that last stanza...
>
> Doug
>
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> Late night
> resurrection of a forgotten love, a vanished
> civilization, where the waning moon is the
> accusational eye of a discarded lover. . . .
> Love's absence
> is still love, the heart a celestial wound.
>
> Christopher Dewdney
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