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I’ll grant that, Doug, Sheila. I did try reading it aloud and it sounds impressive. And this is certainly an element of a good poem. I just could not follow any trajectory nor was I arrested by an image. Normally, Sheila, after a couple of reads, something coalesces for me or leaps out. I just haven’ got there with this one yet. I’m picking up on some sort of attitude to protests in times of virus - feigned reports, shuttered views, devouring clans? The glut of old codes line is still confusing to me, Doug, Andrew, but it’s probably just me. Bill On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 6:49 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Oh hell, > > How does it sound aloud? > > Doug > > > 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): > > > > When thugs were in power, educated people were the first > to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence > came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not > matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, > gnawing with very sharp teeth. > > the scholar Janath Anar > in Steven Eerikson’s Reaper’s Gale > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a > mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/POETRYETC, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/