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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