Bloody great haibun, Doug. Thanks for that ... A
2008/4/30 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> snap: upon looking for and finding my lovely slim brushed silver fountain
> pen, then searching through various drawers for ink, finally finding the
> little box of ink cartridges, then shoving a cartridge hard onto the pen,
> then trying to get the ink to flow, finally dipping the nib in some water,
> oops, blue on my fingers, but dried both hands and pen, and tried to write,
> not having completely forgotten how to hold a fountain pen but realizing as
> before that my penmanship is, to be polite, not the best.
>
> I want to be
> an ink-stained wretch
> again
>
> Wednesday April 30 2008
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> There are no wrong notes!
>
> Thelonious Sphere Monk
>
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Andrew
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