Absolutely, Andrew. Be honoured.
Cheers,
Bill
On 11/07/2015, at 4:02 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> I like it, Bill. May I blog it?
>
> Andrew
>
> On 9 July 2015 at 08:35, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Doug. I had trouble with the last line but settled on what I have
>> after rejecting my first draft of 'and the life gets sucked clean out of
>> us' which line would have troubled you even more I take it.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 9 Jul 2015, at 1:09 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> A kind of wee allusive essay, Bill. I like the ‘rake hard surfaces’
>> line, but feel a whiff of the lecture hall…
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>> On Jul 7, 2015, at 4:04 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Driving behind cars, you see them clearly,
>>>> ranged across glossy duco on boot lids.
>>>> Finger marks. As if some brute tune
>>>> were to be wrung from mere metal.
>>>> Where once a centrally positioned
>>>> handle sucked all hands to its chrome vortex,
>>>> now boot slamming begins flathandedly
>>>> from anywhere along that closing rim.
>>>>
>>>> Once you'd be roared at for touching
>>>> any such fine surface, metal or glass.
>>>> Now fingers glide for hours over iPads,
>>>> phones. We rake hard surfaces, seeking no
>>>> handle. We get up close and contiguous.
>>>> Reflections diminish as on we blur.
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>
>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>
>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>
>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>
>>
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