Hi Doug,
Many thanks. And also for that very good suggestion which I'll follow.
Best,
Jill
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I like this a lot, Jill, the loss seeming to thread ever aspect.
One small suggestion: because ‘seems’ well seems to be the active
aspect of the remembering in the poem, perhaps you dont need that
‘was’ in the first line? I hear ‘How strange last night, I
beheld your face, electric’ as sounding sharper, leading in…?
What then follows as felt in memory is finely tuned, indeed.
Doug
> On Mar 14, 2018, at 2:22 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
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> THE UN-MARVELLING
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> How strange was last night, I beheld your face, electric
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> with thought along with my unrest, alight and hollow
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> when the night trees shivered and the block
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> we walked seemed more cluttered than the road
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> we used to walk, where every little plot
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> and fence was tended, maybe we were too narrow
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> maybe we lost our hunger then to care or look
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> to stare at stars, to forget the way we marvelled
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> how their brightness could also seem soft
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> and how the moonlight would seem to strain
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> through the canopy no matter how intense or thick
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> how this strange loveliness may never come again
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> how I wanted something - something I never quite got
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> Jill Jones
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> Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
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