Interesting, Andrew. Through the first part, I feel some meter, but.
Only near the end do the line breaks seem to really do some WORK, as I
understand it.
Personal taste, I admit...
And there are some really fine narrative lines there...
Doug
On 20-Sep-08, at 11:32 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> Given email's way of ruining the indent, here is one of my
> favourite Levine
> poems:
>
> *The Simple Truth*
Douglas Barbour
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