Yeah, I enjoyed it too, Hal. Th turns more often than usual in a
sonnet, but your sonnets so to speak always turn over more than usual
what might be expected... I thought the sharpest one was from those
pediatricians to 'Nation mourns.'
Doug
On 13-Aug-06, at 1:23 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Awaiting Sweet Water
>
> Russian rocket nudges ISS into higher orbit. Major
> aeronautical and space programs compare incantations,
> begin to recruit masked educators in big bang’s afterglow.
> Three pediatricians lost during reentry. Nation mourns.
>
> Five thousand astronauts assemble on the tarmac, clamoring
> for throat structures that will not fall back into the airway,
> block it. Looking south on Greenwich Street we no longer
> see those towers. The oldest light in the universe has barely
>
> reached our eyes when we close them, slip into sleep, no
> longer able to keep them open. Experimental flame balls
> do spectacular things in the on-board laboratory. Given this
> kind of city, it comes as no surprise that more and more
>
> young ladies are turning to careers in math. Nothing more
> to say: thunder had an ear and a choice. Devil in details.
>
>
> Halvard Johnson
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surely when they fell
it was into grace
bpNichol
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