The title takes us through the whole, Bill, but I felt a dal jolt at
Or who leapt at
the opportunity?
& wondered if it might be stronger stopping there?
D
On May 26, 2015, at 6:06 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Pecking order
>
> Who got the job,
> I wonder, to efface
> the jaunty white-stencilled
>
> image of Dad,
> still visible
> in dark outline
>
> on the back windscreen
> of the family
> 4-wheel drive?
>
> Or who leapt at
> the opportunity?
> All the rest survive:
>
> frizzy-haired Mum,
> kids, dog, cat.
> Who might emerge to
>
> re-whiten the profile void?
> Or will they be inscribed
> after the cat?
>
> bw
>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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