hovery
and clearest
throughout, Jill; & the spacing & what's left out, so neatly done…
Doug
On 2013-02-21, at 9:59 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Jill is this NZ? Lovely spacey feeling here -also seems to be a
> collection of poems P all hovery
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jill Jones
> Sent: 21 February 2013 13:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: late snap: matanaka
>
> Matanaka from Karitane
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> the sea
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> shivers
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> cause but not the opposite
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> slope clearer
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> late when
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> there is no evening
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> halfway down
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> there is a bush
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> faint dark streak of a cloud
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> near the base faint
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> but distinct path mark
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> windy in rose
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> tussock morning glory
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> palm ryegrass
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> the pattern
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> whitecaps
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> change
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> current sheer
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> the cliff
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> thrown
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> sound is more
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> sound death
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> bird call
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> identify or simply hear
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> as you see bright haze
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> without outline
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> hovery
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> and clearest
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> the black-backed gull
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>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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