Am admiring the turn of the sonnet amidst "historical/ly".
Barry
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:42:45 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>the cobblestones were hard
> on horses' hooves
> on carriages whose wheels
> were just as hard
>
>now jouncing at varying speeds
> sudden stops
> for pedestrians
> & other interferences
>they remain historical
> ly hard
> tough
>on foreign feet & bodies
>
>a sense of the past
> present in every step & swerve
>
>
>
>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
>
>In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
>general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense
>by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz,
>even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long
>bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this
>aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in
>the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
>
>In baseball the object is to go home!
>
> George Carlin, RIP
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