Thank you, Doug! I just read it aloud for the serious music of lamentation it makes.
Cheers,
G. E. Schwartz
---- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'I' saw three planes
> come swooping in
> on a day that sent us running
>
> ‘I’ saw three planes
> come flying high
> on a day of so much breaking
>
> ‘I’ saw three planes
> come landing smooth
> on a day full of new lives
>
> who else saw so many
> on any day of peace
> made bitter or better by their presence
>
> and still ‘I’ saw
> a three for all
> on Christmas day too full of mourning
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 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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