Yes, good questions, & lovely, quick, sharp means of asking them. The stanzaic form working with the material.... Which is why I didn't quite follow the logic here. Maybe because it's not clear whose ugliness, & where? Doug On 15-Oct-07, at 2:49 PM, sharon brogan wrote: > Surely > > predators would be > more deterred by > ugliness. 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 and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much contemplation to our western fact: to Rise, Decline, Fall, to futility and larks, to the bright crustaceans of the oversky. Phyllis Webb