Will consider that, Doug. As long as it's a given that most readers will 'get' those white stencils. I thought I might need to 'explain' a little.
Bill
> On 27 May 2015, at 9:43 pm, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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:
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>> 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
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> There is no life that does not rise
> melodic from scales of the marvelous.
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> To which our grief refers.
>
> Robert Duncan.
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