Jill, Particularly enjoy your usage "ferny" which I don't recall ever encountering thus. Barry On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 08:31:32 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >as the pen does too, Jill. And that ‘natural state’ turning to burning I heard, but maybe that’s just that UN report… > >I like how quickly this gets it all in… > >Doug > >> On Oct 10, 2018, at 5:53 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> >> >> SCRATCHES >> >> >> >> the natural state is >> >> turning, there’s no true >> >> forecast without tomorrow’s >> >> work, the old dog scratches out >> >> repetitions, an evening’s >> >> mote of dust now resides >> >> in memory and the garden’s >> >> ferny root systems >> >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > >Douglas Barbour >[log in to unmask] >https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > >Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). >Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). >Listen. If (UofAPress): > > > Someone to talk to, for God’s sake, some- >thing to love that will never hit back > > Phyllis Webb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >######################################################################## > >To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1