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On 11/6/07, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 10:40 PM
> Subject: 1 Poem
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> > She Is Thinking of the Ghost
> >
> > (after the woodcut by Gauguin)
> >
> > A notch below hallejulah,
> > she's enjoined to no hosannas
> > by the urnfield choir, but remains
> > silent, still under a cloud, which
> >
> > palms its silver over
> > the lay of the land.
> >
> > Her maker sees her damned
> > on her face, a chapter averse to
> > her stone closed book. His primus
> > tonus enchants us no less. How
> >
> > strait this coat, his
> > thought the night:
> >
> > starry decisive yet untoward, moot
> > her thing when brought to light.
> >
> >
> > Candice Ward (c) 2006
> > _The Moon Sees the One_
> >
> > I especially like the play with legal terminology, of all things -
> "starry
> > decisive"; what is the phrase? Stare Decisis?? -- Love that last stanza.
>



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