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I like the sad severity of this, Doug. I was just looking at a bunch of similar architecture (we call them 'monster boxes') up in the Oakland hills - houses that were build to replace those lost in the 1991 fire. These battlements have splendid views across the San Francisco Bay - which seems the only relief, comfort. Oh, us haughty poets. Stephen > I like this Doug - what concentration, the lineation with maximum > effect, "being there", right. It takes a practiced freedom to write like > that. > Martin > > Douglas Barbour wrote: > >> snap: the new house >> >> the lot can >> barely contain >> >> coded as castle >> not palace >> fortress perhaps >> or prison >> >> an utterly rect >> angular facade >> >> bifurcate by >> centred double door >> small windows >> mirrored below >> battlements >> dull brown >> >> noting nothing >> welcome and >> >> yet to see a human >> being there >> >> 17 V 06 >> >> Douglas Barbour >> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW >> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 >> (780) 436 3320 >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> >> The dew is on the vineleaves. >> My tree >> is lit with the >> break of day. >> >> Denise Levertov >>