Hi Doug,
Agenbite is good old word. I particularly liked how the small gaps (white syntax) worked in the second and last stanzas. Pauses before turning pauses.
Cheers,
Jill
On 08/10/2015, at 4:58 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> do we turn to those fallen leaves
> catching the last light
> red glow in red glow
>
> because we must or
> feel we have to
> make that choice
>
> against political agenbite
> that frustrating sense
> of something slowly lost
>
> we knew we had only
> when it disappeared
> while little beauties shine on still
>
>
> 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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