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All things now rise, and the cries of men to be born in ways afresh, aside from all old narratives, away from intervals too wide to mark the grasses (not those on which cattle feed. or single stars which show the way to buy bad goods in green & red lit stores, no symbols the grasses in the ice, or Orion's sweep. or the closeness of turning snows, these can tell the tale of any one of us stormed or quieted by our own things, what belong, tenaciously to our own selves from 'An Ode on Nativity,' Charles Olson A very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all (even if snowed in) Doug Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ 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 ‘What, they’re all Jewish, superheroes. Superman, you don’t think he’s Jewish? Coming over from the old country, changing his name lke that. Clark Kent, only a Jew would pick a name like that for himself.’ Michael Chabon