This discussion thread is almost a Canto unto itself.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> to rid me of
> the ugh in
> thought
> i spell anew
> weave the world
> out of the or
> binary
>
> bpNichol
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