I like the concept; I like the first two. Especially the
understatement, & how it works...
Doug
On 11-Feb-08, at 3:00 PM, Dominic Fox wrote:
> Another list of things that won't be fixed. First two, there may be
> more:
>
> i)
>
> The catch in her voice
> as she says "in those days
> things were different"
>
> meaning particular things
> not speakable then and not
> speakable now
>
> meaning the aura
> around those things
>
> and all things touched by it
>
> ii)
>
> Nostalgia bespeaks a home
> imaginary as may be
> where you or a part of you
> are even now indoors
>
> sheathed against the day
>
> the ram comes through the wall
> to make the house secure
> peace comes to the town
> sector by sector
>
Douglas Barbour
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