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Doug, Gradually discovered the acrostic after noting the unusual 4/5/1/4 stanzaic pattern for a sonnet. A very strong "turn" from the end of the 10th line to the beginning of the 11th. Barry On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:50:32 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >meet the parents >each time the same >and different >tell that to the kids > >body knows what body feels >loss across the years >ordinary people >or not all learn >dreams will falter > >& drift memory > >batters against stories >organizing what realities >no one can now recall >each time we tell them again > > >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): > >It was cold, in a way that Shadow was starting to become familiar with: colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it was a British building secret. > > Neil Gaiman > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >######################################################################## > >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