Neat strong images. Can you drop the 'are' & 'is'?
Doug
On 18-Nov-09, at 12:34 AM, Jim Bennett wrote:
> Must be the winter blues starting;
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> snap 1
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> the trees like the ghosts of fathers
> are shadows in the morning mist
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> in the field the monastic stones
> show where walls stood
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> their surface worn down by frost
> and rain to a milky chalk
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> the sound of voices has no throat
> its larynx is wind in the hedgerow
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> grass silvered by the first frost
> of another winter
>
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