Very lovely snap, Doug. It breathes hope and fosters a settles feeling
about time. Very fine sense of the natural rightness that emerges, evolves,
and guides.
Thank you. Sheila
On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> full moon bright
> shadows on the snow
> the shapes on empty trees
> shift so lowly
>
> into the new year
> a blank page
> opening to vistas above
> stars twinkling in ice
>
> at least until the dawn
> sun’s eye alighting
> on the detritus
> of the year now past
>
>
> 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):
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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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