maybe a comma after 'Exacerbated'. (you could take it out this
afternoon).
On 22/04/2007, at 23:23, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Sonnet: At the Treeline
>
> Exacerbated trees lined up along the far horizon,
> spelling defeat for the nearby townspeople, ready
> at last to speculate openly on their failure to elect
> competent ministers and sheriffs and deputies.
>
> Dismantling the silences around them, voluntary
> amnesiacs filled in missile silos and adjacent
> barns, as though no one were out there to threaten
> them, their way of life. Rifts between generations
>
> became more pronounced, threatening their pre-
> consumerist idyll. Yet still, we take our daily
> bowlful of lies and, adding milk and a sprinkling
> of sugar, force it down. Leaflets fell from the trees.
>
> The sky above, as hostile as ever, its deep blue
> more incongruous with each passing moment.
>
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