Stevens. For me, it more or less had to do with a world in which no one is after you, but there's still no safety. kasper salonen wrote: > the opening is familiar, it's not Stevens or Hughes is it? if it is, > the third like is a good twist that introduces the second stanza. > > that said I have zero idea what the abstract assertion of st.2 means > > KS > > On 22/02/2008, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> IN THE FIELD >> >> The only thing moving >> is the eye of the blackbird >> and it's not moving either >> >> we avoid surveillance >> by gathering around us >> the detritus of absence >> >> >> -- >> Tad Richards >> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ >> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ >> >> The moral is this: in American verse, >> The better you are, the pay is worse. >> --Corey Ford >> >> > > -- Tad Richards http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/ http://opusforty.blogspot.com/ The moral is this: in American verse, The better you are, the pay is worse. --Corey Ford