thank you Candice
quotes from the news, sort of....
& an image seen on CBC news from Afghanistan....
Doug
On 28-Feb-07, at 10:59 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> What a wonderfully mysterious poem, Doug. I've read it
> several times, and it keeps getting richer. (Well,
> when you _begin_ with ghosts and "grave corpses," it
> takes the poem in odd directions, necessarily.)
>
> Candice
>
> If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should
> pause before we condemn any one for the vice of
> egoism....
> (Bram Stoker)
>
>
>
> --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> ghosts it seems
>> or just grave corpses
>>
>> bones of an army
>> gone to rust and sand
>>
>> ' troops and kit ...
>> pretty frayed at the edges'
>>
>> how edgy then
>> and now inturned
>>
>> to ward off memory
>> pay no attention
>>
>> crumpled hills of metal
>> left for remembrance
>>
>> flowers of offal
>> 'all fall down'
>>
>> Wednesday February 28 2007
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>
>>
>> There was no sign of survivors, and
>> the poetry reading went on.
>>
>> Tony Perniciaro
>>
>
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Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
There was no sign of survivors, and
the poetry reading went on.
Tony Perniciaro
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