I'm assuming the 'sonnet' is the poem?
Enter in medias res, & let things fall as they may?
Everything smashed, yes.
Doug
On 18-Jun-10, at 3:18 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> “The reason I don’t agree,” he says back,
> “is that none of us holds the same view point.”
> “How many of us are you?” she asks him.
> “Multitudes,” he laughs; “at least, I do think so.”
>
> And then they go out to the near small downs
> crossed by smashed up roads and helicopters,
> tying themselves together with long ropes
> they make of skin and hair – clutching themselves.
>
> All are dolled up, with others, in tumbles
> of breaking trees and gathered grass cuttings.
> All are still unsure who they are. None know.
>
> Not one asks it either, as they multiply
> in beams, throwing themselves against the glass,
> jokes cracking in the opening drying air.
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
because I want to die
writing Haiku
or, better,
long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
Phyllis Webb
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