in the moment of leaving & saying goodbye there’s a second of change in the mood of both sides as the one goes ahead & is already there & the other relaxes back into place as it was & will be for them both Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). Four or five couplets trying to dance into Persia. Who dances in Persia now? A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red. A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees. Phyllis Webb