Good painful poem, Doug. I have lost a lot of pain and weight since I went
vegetarian - pretty well vegan other than eggs. Straight off a local farm.
But I ain't preaching ...
Androo
On 26 November 2015 at 09:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Odd phrasing in final stanza, Doug. Is 'as' meant to connote 'because' or
> 'while'? Know what you mean about the accumulations of aches and their
> willingness to recede and revisit, apparently unaccountably.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thursday, November 26, 2015, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Oh, yes. And the slow accumulation. Each its own. They gather.
> >
> > Lovely, Doug.
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]
> > <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > the little pains
> > > slowly do you in
> > > year by year by year
> > >
> > > they appear
> > > in the knee the
> > > wrist always
> > >
> > > somewhere in the back
> > > here there &
> > > gone again for
> > >
> > > a day a week
> > > perhaps but
> > > little by little
> > >
> > > they accumulate
> > > as never really mentioned
> > > were they
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > >
> > > 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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