Wonderful lil opoem !
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> On 30 Mar 2017, at 8:00 am, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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 <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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
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>>> 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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