Thanks, Andrew, for the imagery and poetry of your response! Sheila
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I like it, too. Its form is a charm bracelet, the images of firelight
> sparking off each other.
>
> Andrew
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> On 2 December 2015 at 08:12, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Thank you so much, Doug! Means a lot.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Beautiful, Sheila.
> > >
> > > I like especially that second verse, its continual moves…
> > >
> > > & the air-iness throughout…
> > >
> > > Doug
> > > > On Dec 1, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hot Breath of the Firelight
> > > >
> > > > If not forced
> > > > to move,
> > > > the swivel
> > > > will elapse
> > > >
> > > > Saplings depict
> > > > branch-at-a-time
> > > > viewing of a sense
> > > > of reach
> > > >
> > > > As castanets clobber
> > > > arbitrary air
> > > > and homophones
> > > > are grabbed mid-air
> > > >
> > > > Serene new flair
> > > > infiltrates the humidity
> > > > fares poorly 'til
> > > > deliverance resumes each year
> > > >
> > > > Sheila E. Murphy
> > >
> > > Douglas Barbour
> > > [log in to unmask]
> > > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> > >
> > > 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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