Not sure I agree, but if so, then I'd put it into a run-on kind of prose poem format... I like the way it moves however.... Doug On 2011-12-05, at 10:13 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > Y'know I think I like the longer lines too (but with required word > separation). And no medial comma in line one I guess. The shorter lines > look too much like the kind of thing you used to see in little magazines > when they existed (I know they still do, but somewhat posthumously) > > > On 5 December 2011 15:23, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> for life togetherfor yvonne, for lilafor the end of time >> convivial as eight-part harmony's irradiantorange and blue-violet >> dazzling and abandonedas chords of resonancehalo the strident >> moloch-faced brass statuesuddenly overwhelmed with flowers >> > > > > -- > David Joseph Bircumshaw > "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is > that none of it has tried to contact us." > - Calvin & Hobbes > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > 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 The foreign city of two minds is my home Michele Leggott