I think the 'snowed' play is the best feature of that little scribble,
Doug. (isn't it refreshing to not take oneself too seriously) This is
a tardy reply as my computer fell into a coma for the last six days,
unlike, I insist, its owner, and I'm just catching up on things.
Best
Dave
2008/12/27 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> I like the play on 'snowed' in the 3rd line, Dave, which ardens the whole a
> bit....
>
> Doug
> On 26-Dec-08, at 9:46 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> Even as I remember them, they fall from me.
>> Perhaps we were once a part, apart now
>> in the slush of waking, snowed by the fall
>> of soft slow flakes of shall we call it time?
>
> Douglas Barbour
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