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From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: 1 Poem
> She Is Thinking of the Ghost
>
> (after the woodcut by Gauguin)
>
> A notch below hallejulah,
> she's enjoined to no hosannas
> by the urnfield choir, but remains
> silent, still under a cloud, which
>
> palms its silver over
> the lay of the land.
>
> Her maker sees her damned
> on her face, a chapter averse to
> her stone closed book. His primus
> tonus enchants us no less. How
>
> strait this coat, his
> thought the night:
>
> starry decisive yet untoward, moot
> her thing when brought to light.
>
>
> Candice Ward (c) 2006
> _The Moon Sees the One_
>
> I especially like the play with legal terminology, of all things - "starry
> decisive"; what is the phrase? Stare Decisis?? -- Love that last stanza.
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