Doug,
I like how you move from what you may have seen looking up (expressed in elevated diction) to a metaphysical question invoking a "topoi" of science fiction. Enjoyed as well the near "rhyme" with your quote from Robert Kroetsch.
Barry
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 19:22:09 +0000, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>thanks Doug plenty of grey black moilings about here at the moment
>cheers
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>might prefer and to & ?
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>On 19/02/2020 18:46, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> the ever widening sky
>> blue transparencies
>> grey black moilings
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>> & far beyond that threshold
>> stars slowly drift
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>> in how many universes
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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 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>> Done in by creation itself.
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>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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