On 27/03/2008, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I might be wrong and can't find a reference now but it think it was Auden
> who said poems aren't finished, just abandoned.
I think it might be one of those things that quite a few people have said (I
seem to recall Rilke said something similar. In German, of course!)
But when I entitled the post 'draft' I was mindful of the sense of the word
as a preliminary version of a document. The final stanza, for instance, is
now:
to this one, scribbling here, across a left over note,
a bone trace of age unstated, Joseph of my surname, asphyxiated
*circa* 1848 at a firedamp lit hard seam at Loscoe pit.
Best
Dave
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