I like the phrasing in this Douglas, laboured, almost out-of-breath,
synesthetic
also.
-Peter Ciccariello
http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
On 5/24/06, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Snap: strutting our lawn:
>
> mountain in labour perhaps or
> après moi le déluge or
> gilding the lily say
> pranged principalities sing sour
> inaugurating a chain saw mass
> entertainment that sound at dawn
>
> Wednesday May 24 2006
>
> Douglas Barbour
> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>
> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
> The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
> He takes Erato's face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
>
> and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager.
>
> Diana Hartog
>
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