Or mine, sort of. But I remember you talking about these, & this makes
sense.
Still unsure of how it gets from start to finish, but that's my
problem, not yours....
Doug
On 23-Sep-09, at 11:39 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Thanks, Barry. Mystery, perhaps. I just stumbled on to this poem by
> finding it by chance (I guess that is 'stumbling'!) misfiled, as it
> were, in a totally unrelated file. A retro "snap" experience. In
> truth I think it is #67 of a work in which, somewhat parasitically,
> I was using the syllabic structure of a recent book of poems by
> Trevor Joyce (a master 'metric operator', that gentleman of
> Cork!). It was written in the spring in the low Sierra on the Yuba
> River when the snow melt provides the granite ravines with a liquid
> tornado impact.
> With spring breaking open in Australia, it seemed to connect with
> what some - Max & other - folks were riling up here on on the list.
> Well, so much for your query about 'context' here in SF on a
> brilliant sunny Fall day.
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