Like L, I like 'the green moment', Doug. 'brown knots' too. Pat, I take it that after the green moment further engreens, the canopy will hide the stars from below. Fine by me. Bill > On 1 May 2014, at 2:10 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Ah spring!!cheers not sure about hidden stars? P not sure > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Douglas Barbour > Sent: 30 April 2014 16:54 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: a fast snap of the day > > just beginning buds > the littlest newly > brown knots > on a lattice of bare branches > stark against blue sky > a few days from > the green moment > leaves a canopy > beneath the hidden stars > > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Recording Dates > (Rubicon Press) > > How white the gulls > in grey weather > Soon April > the little > yellows > > Lorine Niedecker > > > > > > > > > > > >