'collusions' instead of 'collisions' was a deliberate joke, Douglas.
2008/12/8 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Was that 'collusions' or 'collisions' David?
>
> I like the turn this take, either way...
>
> Doug
> On 7-Dec-08, at 7:01 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> There was sadness in the creatures, and blotched fur.
>> We considered the options of prods, probes, questions
>> but the droop of their eyes, ears and silence told
>> that we were the cause of their sorrow. How furry
>>
>> our nights had once been, what warm blankets
>> of together had once covered us, what intimacies
>> of teddy-bears and dolls had the world held
>> before the talk ceased to be imaginary
>>
>> and turned into financial reports, peer reviews,
>> collusions of hadrons, long trudges in the mud
>> of gossip, back-scratching, bad breath, prose.
>>
>> Once I woke from a dream of pot-plants screaming
>> as they died at their owners' hands: yet the creatures
>> remain, wrapped in their sadness, like shrouds.
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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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
>
> let us make an anthology of recipes
> let us edit for breakfast
> our most unspeakable appetites --
> . . . . .
> let us answer hunger
> with boild chimera
> and apocalyptic tea,
> an arcane salad of spiced bibles,
> tossed dictionaries --
>
> Gwendolyn MacEwen
>
--
David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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