Doug,
The turns in this one really work for me, especially lines 5-7 and
last three.
Cheers,
Jill
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On 17/02/2011, at 4:05 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> more than one country
> _open to death_ yet
> not all dark dreams
> manifest how
> turn to language beset
> by angels so dark light
> a saving grace full
> moon in time
> percussive clouds
> slowly dance
> across the sky above
> the packed square
> tentative balance of forces
> fireworks displace bombs
> in that moment hanging there
>
>
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> Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an
> instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium
> of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead
> cities lie buried.
>
> Walter Benjamin
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