Version two definitely pops more, Doug. I agree with Andrew’s polite rebuke.
Bill
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 2:46 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah, Andrew, yes, maybe. Patrick, sometimes the word that doesn’t quite
> ‘make sense’ is where the mystery resides, & here it are to me felt right.
> Anyway, maybe this, then:
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> the last muddy snow
> has melted under
> bright sun
> brown grass sustains
>
> across a quiet street
> grocery bags stand
> but a moment or two
> on another’s front steps
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> Thanks all.
>
> Doug
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> > On Apr 30, 2020, at 6:57 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > As my friend Doug would say, too many articles ... *the*
> >
> > A picture with story appeal.
> >
> > Andrew
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> > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 09:10, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> >> Gentle, Doug. A covid-era poem. It could also almost be whittled down
> to a
> >> haiku with those two images of subsiding snow and withdrawing bags.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 2:50 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> the last muddy snow
> >>> has melted under
> >>> the bright sun
> >>> the brown grass sustains
> >>>
> >>> across the quiet street
> >>> the grocery bags stand
> >>> but a moment or two
> >>> on another’s front steps
> >>>
>
> 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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> Shakespeare
> drag yr mouldy old bones
> up these stairs & tell me
> what you died of,
> I think
> I’ve got it
> too.
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