Open, & the spaces as time, as listing a kind of length of time passing, it feels like.
that’s the ‘a while’ at work throughout the rest as I feel it, Lawrence. a vagueness in the long term relation…suggested. Suggested, to me, because finally the person(s) seem to live in the invisible, or the hidden (as emotion?)..
in other words, this keeps intriguing…
Doug
On Sep 15, 2015, at 10:53 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> looking at a lover
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> carefully a while
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> her lips drooling
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> there was a vagueness
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> anything'd be scared
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> or scarred
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> small shoulders
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> wanting to speak emphatically
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> face as if stained bloodily
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> breaking out
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> through some curtaining
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> near invisibility
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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