I suspect we all know this, Bill. I felt the middle stanza just stuck there, & you could skip to th third (without the ‘But’)…. Doug > On Oct 27, 2015, at 3:18 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Where has it gone? > Where can it be? > Hovered for a minute, > held its ground, > then scarpered. > > Had it been retrieved > probably wouldn't have > looked much different > from tangible, battled-out > ones that ink hit. > > But its very elusiveness > enthrals, frustrates, > drives the demon > that seeks a resting, > punctuative point. > > bw Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Done in by creation itself. I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too. The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books? We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming? Robert Kroetsch.