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Yes.Bill, if you’ve lost something you knew, you’ve garnered something I (we all?) can see… Doug > On Feb 3, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Thanks, Doug too. Important that I get that first view across clearly. > Max, you'll be happy that 'shooting' has bitten the dust. Doug, this > final version should make it clear where she has propped herself. A > full stop has re-emerged after line 11 too. > > Bill > > She sits skewiff, > one leg plonked > in the shallows, > the other splayed > sandwards. > > Played-out waves > encircle her, > an island > of slump. > Beach strollers > > diverge either side. > They can see she's > there for the duration. > Her firstborn splashes > in nearby shallows. > > Loose top semi-soaked, > arms trawling wet > sand runnels, facing > sun full-on, she > radiates surrender. > > bw Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 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.