Thanks everyone. The poet dedicated to loves his puns…
Doug
On Jul 30, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, 'of time passed / & pissing' and all that is in play.
>
> J
>
> On 30/07/2015, at 5:16 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>
>> Like particularly the final three lines, Doug. That sense of niggling presence.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On 30/07/2015, at 1:59 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>
>>> (for Dennis Cooley)
>>>
>>> to be at play
>>> a ploy a
>>> gain against
>>> the merest entropy
>>>
>>> of near acquaintance
>>> with the slow loss
>>> of friends the nearly
>>> unseen encroachments
>>> of time passed
>>> & pissing
>>> into a wind keeps blowing
>>> hardly felt yet
>>> consistently in your hair
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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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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