Thanks Doug. I think I definitely prefer its layout as a word document to
that in an e-mail - it's a curious thing how lineation matters in prose
poems. I recall a book once where the author demonstrated this by printing
some of Hill's 'Mercian Hymns' as normal prose, which ruined them utterly.
On 7 July 2010 15:18, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> i'll take it as 'prose poem,' David.
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> especially taken with 'Before was, is' as aphorism in the piece...
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> Doug
> On 7-Jul-10, at 12:20 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> Breathed Live*
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
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> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> because I want to die
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> writing Haiku
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> or, better,
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> long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
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> Phyllis Webb
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