Ha that failing away -it is about marriage isn't it ?? P:-) -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Barbour Sent: 26 October 2011 22:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: snap late fall snap the last leaves shiver in the wind thin branches & these shadows stark against a light blue sky sun already lower above the river valley its light less warm each day Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] [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.h tml Why poetry? And why not, I asked, my right brain humming sedition. Phyllis Webb