Jill, Particularly enjoy your usage "ferny" which I don't recall ever encountering thus. Barry
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:31:32 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>as the pen does too, Jill. And that ‘natural state’ turning to burning I heard, but maybe that’s just that UN report…
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>I like how quickly this gets it all in…
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>> On Oct 10, 2018, at 5:53 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> turning, there’s no true
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>> forecast without tomorrow’s
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>> work, the old dog scratches out
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>> repetitions, an evening’s
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>> mote of dust now resides
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>> in memory and the garden’s
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>> ferny root systems
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>Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
>Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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