You are wonderful, Doug, and I appreciate your reading - immensely! Sheila
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 10:10 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> Wonderful Sheila
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> Catching the moment, without even mentioning it. And how the last 2 lines
> of stanza 2 suddenly rightly swerve into the next 2 stanzas; thank you Ms
> Sardonica.
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> Doug
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> > On Jun 22, 2020, at 6:30 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > How do we unrest together?
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> > Form fitting innocence
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> > delimits our research
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> > aspiring to a feigned rapport,
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> > shuttering the views
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> > of youth in peril
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> > seeking to distinguish flowers
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> > from devouring clans who pluck them.
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> > Set the tone with pursed lips
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> > making points sans impact
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> > vocalizing to the empty
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> > chairs chastising
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> > gravitation light and
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> > whims downsized to form
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> > a colony of dogma leaving home
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> > a glut of old codes that demand a clash
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> > Sheila E. Murphy
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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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> When thugs were in power, educated people were the first
> to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence
> came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not
> matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained,
> gnawing with very sharp teeth.
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> the scholar Janath Anar
> in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale
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