I suspect we all know this, Bill.
I felt the middle stanza just stuck there, & you could skip to th third (without the ‘But’)….
Doug
> On Oct 27, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Where has it gone?
> Where can it be?
> Hovered for a minute,
> held its ground,
> then scarpered.
>
> Had it been retrieved
> probably wouldn't have
> looked much different
> from tangible, battled-out
> ones that ink hit.
>
> But its very elusiveness
> enthrals, frustrates,
> drives the demon
> that seeks a resting,
> punctuative point.
>
> 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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