which is why I used 'giggle'
KS
On 20/03/2008, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kasper - In my neck of the woods, I have never never ever ever heard a crow "giggle". But maybe you can point my ear in the right direction.
>
> I am just happy not to be a hawk that they occasionally 'guide' out of the neighborhood. Such nasty squacking!
>
> Stephen V
>
> The blackest of black
> Hats she tore
> Then jumped to try
> The darkest pool
> Not to return
> She acquired quickly
> The liquid knowledge
> A small crow's breast.
>
> from Trellis, a work-in-progress
>
>
>
> kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: in fact this poem captures the feeling of a moment very well, in a
>
> sparse style that I used to use in my poetry. one of my first poems
> that I wrote consciously as anything but fun or an exercise (all poems
> are both, but not solely) touched on a similar moment:
>
> Night held lanterns
> aloft in the fog
>
> combing the streets
> for elusive crows
>
> who giggled and hid
> with the ravens
>
> KS
>
>
> On 20/03/2008, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
> > Jon-
> >
> > guils,
> >
> > Time comes
> >
> > around again
> >
> > for the lighting
> >
> > of lamps
> >
> > yellow globes
> >
> > flush with flame
> >
> > from sill
> >
> > from fencerow:
> >
> > slender shadows
> >
> > sway
> >
> > in the soughing of
> >
> > March, pull
> >
> > at April's
> >
> > long wick.
> >
> >
>
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