Ah, is this an order, or merely the order you followed those 8 years, Bill?
Because I don’t know the context in which they were necessary, I’m not sure I feel the pressure of the poem.
Doug
> On May 7, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Never leave home,
>
> never walk out the door
>
>
>
> without patting the pockets.
>
> Must hear the reassuring rattle
>
>
>
> of little wood
>
> against little wood.
>
>
>
> Red nubs forward,
>
> blacks back.
>
>
>
> A wallet’s handy,
>
> coins, keys
>
>
>
> but without matches,
>
> you’re still undressed,
>
>
>
> not ready
>
> to take on the world.
>
>
>
> For eight years,
>
> I lived like this,
>
>
>
> conscripted
>
> to ignition,
>
>
>
> following the Drum,
>
> Tally Ho ...
>
>
>
> 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).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
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
########################################################################
To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1
