but you have to watch out for deliquescent delinquents at the
delicatessen !!
On 30/03/2017 15:59, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Thank you all (& Bill, as one tend to forget the words one needs t the moment one needs them, it was neat to remember ‘deliquescent' <g>).
>
> Doug
>> On Mar 29, 2017, at 10:08 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Wonderful lil opoem !
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> 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
> 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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