Thanks, Doug.
Bill
On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 at 3:13 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I agree, Bill. Cant a reader infer when necessary? I like the piece; how
> it catches the looking at & the looked at, & then what was & wasn’t there…
>
> Doug
>
> > On Jan 10, 2018, at 3:06 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Andrew, Patrick. I’m experimenting with removing punctuation, Pat.
> > Gets in the way, esp question marks.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 at 8:58 pm, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> bookstore grit comes away
> >>
> >> thanks Bill rings a bell
> >>
> >> do you need a question mark after cloud or is it not necessary
> >>
> >> been cold here dark damp good for cold dark damp poetry!
> >>
> >>
> >> On 09/01/2018 21:34, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>> Closing a used copy
> >>>
> >>> Of Sam Shepard’s stories
> >>>
> >>> Gazing at the cover
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Photographed from behind
> >>>
> >>> A blue-hued father and his son sit
> >>>
> >>> Legs dangling over the end of a jetty
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Two removed boots face the viewer
> >>>
> >>> Is that a bird
> >>>
> >>> Above a low cloud
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Chip at it with my thumbnail
> >>>
> >>> Bookstore grit comes away
> >>>
> >>> Clear skies return
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> bw
> >>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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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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> Swept snow, Li Po,
> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> to the road that hies to office
> away from home.
>
> Lorine Niedecker
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