This is one of your best Kasper, & I agree with Rupert about how sharp
the turn of these lines are:
"sends its satellites climbing on the
hinge of bendy wire"
it's good to see you keeping your distance in this too....
Doug
On 18-Sep-07, at 1:21 PM, kasper salonen wrote:
> the climbers climb, hundreds
> growing one from the other,
> extending like the lively hair of the dead,
> a different species
> surprised by its autonomy;
>
> a deep groove has stayed in this wall
> like a carriage rut for decades.
> now this many-faced, many-fingered tree
> in the nook of rubble, slender & entrepid,
> sends its satellites climbing on the
> hinge of a bendy wire¨D
>
> they are the wheel this cranny
> has waited for. turning slower than
> the clock of the sky that feeds them
> in the tick-tick of seconds made honey,
> made nuclear, then chloroplast¨D
>
> the leaves ascend their flags,
> leave a green kingdom behind.
>
> KS
>
>
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in pidgen apocalypse ¨C how now not
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proud planet?
Dennis Lee
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