Thank you, Doug. You may rise. Hal "A rose by any other name is a rose by any other name is a rose by any other name is a rose by any other name." --Gertrude Shakespeare (oft. attrib. to Wm. Stein) Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Feb 3, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote: > Love it, Hal. All minds *need* to be lifted up, eh? My muscle (s) > lacking, for sure.... > > I thoroughly enjoyed the vagaries of the 'some-' throughout too... > > Doug > On 2-Feb-07, at 9:45 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > >> Sonnet: Tango Bouquet >> >> Hes and shes, God thought, what can I do for them >> that I haven't already done? Once we boarded their >> veins up, they had nothing good to say anymore. >> >> Tawdry mimosas sprang up on cafe tables everywhere, >> and no one seems to have noticed. If brains were >> muscles, then all minds could be lifted up. >> >> Something with something always gets along for two >> or three days, circling the plaza, first one way and >> then the other. Eyes plucking the birds from the sky. >> >> Someone's corsage hung from a flagpole, dipping >> and waving in the biscuity breeze. Stores open >> till ten, now that darkness upon us has fallen. >> >> The disjuncture of what men seek, someone said. >> Or maybe the word was departure, someone thought. >> >> >> >> >> Hal >> >> Halvard Johnson >> ================ >> [log in to unmask] >> [log in to unmask] >> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard >> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com >> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com >> http://www.hamiltonstone.org >> >> > Douglas Barbour > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > (780) 436 3320 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > > The stars wheel over > The Cross drops its image > Into the watertank. > > David Campbell