and I like that, Dave. SO it goes, on....
Doug
On 27-Mar-08, at 2:55 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> On 27/03/2008, Nathan Hondros <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> 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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