I like the way the enjambment holds the poem together tightly, like a not-so-gentle hand guiding the reader, who seems about to leap off the edge of a cliff into the ocean below.
What was the photograph or painting?
Mill
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Água mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 8:38 am
Subject: snap ekphrastic
the far horizon
hangs there grey
& cut off by camera
s edge a shade
of distance difference
caught in perfect focus
as below each piece
of land sea bridge
holds the eye first also
focused perfectly
till it drops to
that lower window
vertigo of straight down
through girders rails
to the always waiting sea
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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