first snow falling slow
hangs in the air
a curtain drifting there
thickening sight
you see
either the depth of
the lines of or
certain flakes shifting
immediate then
twisting & gone
while slowly the trees
& houses fade
away into
a distance made only
of white descent
as night
gently falls
into place
Douglas Barbour
Edmonton 08:15 October 29/03
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Historical imagination gathers in the missing
Susan Howe
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