Like particularly, 'like a soft/Scream', Millicent. Screams may be set to
harden from here on
Bill
On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 at 2:55 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> By now maybe all of the above?
>
> Ditto Gerald…
>
> Doug
> > On Nov 9, 2016, at 6:59 AM, G. E. Schwartz <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thank you for this! A crack of light gets through...
> >
> > ---- Millicent Borges Accardi <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> What to Drink on Election Night
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I want to reach for the Maker’s Mark
> >> Since it is so solid and old school
> >> And settles in my throat like a soft
> >> Scream.
> >>
> >> I may go all gurly and choose the holiday
> >> Bailey’s for comfort and cream
> >> And the sweet remembrance of drinking
> >> With my mother after her cancer.
> >>
> >> There is always the steady red wine
> >> From Trader Joe’s, a shiraz I believe
> >> That Tim the wine guy suggested for
> >> Under $5 and promised it to be much
> >> More densely bold than two buck Chuck.
> >>
> >> I could entice the ghost of Margo
> >> My grandmother who would have ridden
> >> Her three wheel bicycle to the voting
> >> Place on Cherry Ave and who would have
> >> Definitely worn her red lipstick in a gold
> >> Tube that she saved from her trip to Las Vegas
> >> She definitely would have been chugging
> >> Jameson's in a high-ball glass with a paper
> >> Towel around it to keep the ice cold.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> New Poetry Collection: Only More So @ Amazon
> >>
> >>
> >> http://www.MillicentBorgesAccardi.com
> >>
> >> @TopangaHippie on Twitter
> >>
> >> Água mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Venerable Optimist
>
> He saw the dark as a ragged garment
> spread out to air.
> Through its rents and moth-holes
> the silver light came pouring.
>
> Denise Levertov
>
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