Thanks Barry, Bill, & Patrick
Yes, I am trying in writing these to ‘see’ & in my limited way match the meditative process (which I suppose happens to us all in the act of writing, if nowhere else)
Doug
> On Apr 5, 2019, at 5:44 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I admire your focus on the extended process of composition & your enactment of a sample, Doug.
>
> Barry
>
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 10:30:11 +0100, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> thanks taking the writing as the artwork -just wondered my brushes do
>> not snap they tend to caress? cheers P not a very wise old man in wet
>> cold Raynes Park
>>
>> On 03/04/2019 20:46, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>> Many poems from different dynasties, Patrick, all those old Chinese sages (Yeats also wrote about); of course they painted their ‘writing’…
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>> On Apr 3, 2019, at 1:43 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> is this about an art work?
>>>>
>>>> On 03/04/2019 19:41, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>>> so that wise old man
>>>>> alone on his mountain
>>>>>
>>>>> far above the city towers
>>>>> his tea cooling
>>>>>
>>>>> remembering friends
>>>>> long gone below
>>>>>
>>>>> holding brush & breath
>>>>> & then patient
>>>>>
>>>>> delicate snap of
>>>>> thin black line — this
Douglas Barbour
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Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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