Doug,
I like the way the branches/curses rhyme (off-rhyme? slant-rhyme? I never
remember the precise term) creates a musical resolution to these lines that
matches the snowfall-quiet of their movement.
Richard
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Subject: Re: a snap
returning snow
falls silently all night
huge flakes
& gentle swathe
an ancient woodcut
sharply etched
white on dark branches
or carpeting (again
smoothing over potholes
someone already curses
Edmonton March 16-17 2005
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
'Goodbye Porkpie Hat': A slow air written by bass legend, band-leader
and composer Charles Mingus . . . . It originally appeared on is 1959
album for Columbia "Mingus Ah Um" scored for quintet.
Tony Mcmanus "Ceol More'
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