Like L, I like 'the green moment', Doug. 'brown knots' too. Pat, I take it that after the green moment further engreens, the canopy will hide the stars from below. Fine by me.
Bill
> On 1 May 2014, at 2:10 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Ah spring!!cheers not sure about hidden stars? P not sure
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 30 April 2014 16:54
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> Subject: a fast snap of the day
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> just beginning buds
> the littlest newly
> brown knots
> on a lattice of bare branches
> stark against blue sky
> a few days from
> the green moment
> leaves a canopy
> beneath the hidden stars
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> Recording Dates
> (Rubicon Press)
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> How white the gulls
> in grey weather
> Soon April
> the little
> yellows
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