Ah, ya shoulda known, Bill.
Oh, & my error, I first read that as At a reading’…
Doug
On Jun 3, 2015, at 3:42 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Haha!cheers Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 02 June 2015 22:58
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> Subject: At a wedding
>
> Can't see a bloody thing all these tall bodies milling
> Wait there's a tattooed arm holding a phone aloft
> Now the frenetic moves on stage fall into focus
> through bobbing viewfinder well above the throng
> The camera arm is slender but strong
> Wavy-haired girl depicted on left arm
> Arm must be female too otherwise
> slender would not have popped in as adjective
> Yes she is tall barebacked slinky-dressed
> capturing those dance moves Emjay moves
> she tells me afterwards
> and when I still look bemused Michael
> Jackson.
>
> 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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