Thanks, Doug! I appreciate this.
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Very sharp, Sheila, that Once & that history, there unto...
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> Doug
> On 2012-05-16, at 6:20 PM, Sheila Murphy wrote:
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> > Once, I did this
> > thing, now
> > it is done,
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> > the calendar,
> > all blossy,
> > holds petals
> > and weeds,
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> > this day
> > sustained
> > by stains and
> > lush blend of
> > the hood's
> > square metres
> > a perfume
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> > apart from
> > history I made
> > myself into.
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> > Sheila E. Murphy
> >
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