Agreeing with your friend, Sheila & Jill, Bill. The new turn turns away from the fire…
Doug
> On Aug 29, 2018, at 5:20 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Patrick. Glad to have you take time from your horror holiday to
> comment!
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 9:18 pm, patrick mcmanus <
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>>
>>
>> Thanks Bill am in pub on beach Kingsdown Kent I preferred poem ending in a
>> blaze!Not sure if I can post a snap from here
>>
>>
>> Sent from Samsung tablet
>>
>> -------- Original message --------
>> From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 28/08/2018 23:41 (GMT+00:00)
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Sleep
>>
>> Sleep
>>
>>
>> As a clogged fire smoulders
>>
>> wrestling with its latency
>>
>> until from somewhere,
>>
>> kindle catches
>>
>> and flame is born
>>
>> so the transition
>>
>> from restlessness
>>
>> to the blaze of sleep
>>
>>
>> bw
>>
>>
>> I had two more lines at the end:
>>
>>
>> and soon
>>
>> the lawless cinema of dreams
>>
>>
>> but a local poet friend, Ross Gillett, to whom I showed this, suggested
>> truncating it to just eight lines as above. Any thoughts, poetryetcers?
>>
>>
>> Bill
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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