Like Max, I’m nog sure of what 9-23 means, Bill.
And the rhymes are smart & funny till the last few stanzas; then feel less full…
Are they meant to suggest the kind of verse you wrote back then?
Doug
On Sep 29, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bits of me,
> Journals 9-23
>
> Unpacking my life.
> Brownlow to Fyfe.
>
> News leaks in.
> Now far from kin.
>
> What I used to be,
> is that still me?
>
> Here a scrawled page,
> a previous age,
>
> concerns about work,
> plans, moods, eerch!
>
> Much more to unpack.
> Stop submitting to slack.
>
> But how unnerving it feels
> to start new history.
>
> bw
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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