I like the 'as if' of it all, David...
Doug
On Jan 15, 2014, at 3:37 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Haven't done one of these for a while, so here's a little exercise:
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> * Primitive*
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> All night the rain has argued with the wind.
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> A balloon turns at its mooring, as if adrift
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> In the hushed pillowed weather of my head.
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> Our foxes hide as the dawn’s throats wake.
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> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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