Doug interesting I wondered if it could also end 'tease the historians
to come'
without the concrete it could be all history -methinks
On 15/03/2017 16:18, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> So many cities
> shone upon their hills once
> gold burnished
> in the setting sun
>
> stone & concrete
> shattered now
> by jungle vines
> the blood soaked ropes of war
>
> across the centuries
> they fall
> wall by wall
>
> stone blocks tossed
> scattered & covered
> by mud & bush
>
> fortress this country or that
> their cities a capital
> joke on historians to come
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> and as you read
> the sea is turning its dark pages
> turning
> its dark pages.
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> Denise Levertov
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