I hope, Hal, that I did not imply that it (the poem) was not! Stephen http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ I think I just put up one of my best haptics of the summer. Enjoy. --- On Fri, 8/20/10, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Critique To: [log in to unmask] Date: Friday, August 20, 2010, 7:23 PM You're right, Doug, it swings. That's a Hal of a poem. Andrew On 21 August 2010 04:17, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The whole swings, Hal, & hard, but this line especially cuts to the bone. > > Doug > > On 20-Aug-10, at 1:41 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > > Notions of progress, our most imperfect product, >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ <http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Edbarbour/> > > Latest books: > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > Wednesdays' > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > if you dribble past five defenders, it isnt called sheer prose > > Tom Leonard > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at http://www.picaropress.com/ http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766 http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html