Doug, I can definitely imagine your "snap: for a short while" taken as a still or a video by a camera. Your spatialized language enacts its own presence quite precisely. A first snow here didn't last long on either the trees or the ground except for a too perfect patch on the sidewalk and grass just beyond a firehouse. Eventually I concluded that it was a post-Halloween "trick" with artificial snow, but I should ask one of the firefighters. Barry
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:00:27 -0700, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Doug, this is a very beautiful portrait that calls to mind she shifting
>nature of reality. I feel a camera gradually backing away from the late
>imagery, and this has a powerful if quiet effect. Thank you! Sheila
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>On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 3:08 PM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>> that light dust of snow stuck
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>> glows in the lowering sun
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>> below turned to slush
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>> it dulls the asphalt
>> lost in shadows
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
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>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
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