Doug, this is beautiful, an instant favourite for me of all your poems I
have read, not least for your use of deliquescent, a new (to me) and
utterly appropriate word here.
Bill
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 at 4:50 am, Patrick McManus <
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> Doug thanks yes we have lost our dark
>
>
> On 29/03/2017 18:01, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> > in the cities late at night
> > the darkness
> > never fully arrives
> >
> > a complicit light reaches
> > into every yard stretches
> > along the streets
> >
> > at some point snow
> > a spattered curtain
> > adds even more bright
> >
> > to the always held at bay
> > dark & slowly
> > begins to outline branches
> >
> > a delicate & deliquescent
> > etching emerging
> > to be lost by morning
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask]
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> > Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >
> >
> > and as you read
> > the sea is turning its dark pages
> > turning
> > its dark pages.
> >
> > Denise Levertov
>
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