A day or two later, Barry, but thanks. It was +19 in Toronto yesterday, but apparently a cold wind is blowing in. Here it's still minus 28, windchill minus 38 -- that's Centigrade. Doug On 12-Jan-05, at 8:03 PM, Barry Alpert wrote: > Doug, I like a number of aspects of your snap. The spatialization, > the > coloration, and that unexpected (and effective) linebreak: > > above god / s pared fingernail > > > It's supposed to reach 66 F here tomorrow. Barry > > Douglas Barbour Department of English University of Alberta Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada (780) 436 3320 http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks. He takes Erato’s face, dribbling and wild, between his hands and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager. Diana Hartog