Nor I, & inspiration? Hmmnn. I’m beginning to read a fascinating study of Phyllis Webb’s poetry & poetics (which I should have read years ago; the study, I mean; I have been reading Webb’s poetry for many decades now), & one of the things Stephen Collis is saying is that poets respond to other poets’ poem, poems in a sense are always in a conversation with other poems. Or other writings. So he r.a. is Robert Adamson, who has written so much about fish u fishing but has sent the past few years dedicated to a bird. A thought from which? Something to begin with? Escher comes into it somehow too.
Doug
> On Mar 7, 2019, at 3:35 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> thanks Douglas not sure what is happening
>
> On 07/03/2019 01:29, Bill Wootton wrote:
>> Sounds like Fran’s taxicab has taken you well outdoors, Doug. What, I
>> wonder, inspired this ‘inscribed’ poem?
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 11:26 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> fish to bird fish
>>> to bird how often
>>> does this happen or
>>>
>>> a long drawn out event
>>> horizon shift
>>> a singularity
>>>
>>> words must change too
>>> colours slowly alter
>>> fins to wings seen
>>>
>>> ordered a beauty
>>> found only this once
>>> inscribed
>>>
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
The outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
Fran Lebowitz
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