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I'd like double peaches with almost anything; but the double spacing, no.
Not in my file, which uses my standard settings for such writing.
Three verses of three stanzas, each with a line break between each stanza
L
On 16 December 2015 at 16:18, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Looked at carefully, Lawrence.
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> (BTW: do you intend the double peaches between lines; that pause?)
>
> I early like the twist on ‘contract’…
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> Doug
> > On Dec 16, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Her hands, between prayer and defence,
> >
> > part to succumb to decency;
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> > arms go to her side, hands below.
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> >
> >
> > Her eyes contract with no one.
> >
> > She looks into a distance,
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> > fingers straight as sunflowers
> >
> >
> >
> > downwards to the centre of the earth;
> >
> > but she wobbles on the balls of her feet,
> >
> > tense, marking time.
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> Douglas Barbour
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> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
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