Yes, 'of time passed / & pissing' and all that is in play.
J
On 30/07/2015, at 5:16 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Like particularly the final three lines, Doug. That sense of niggling presence.
>
> Bill
>
> On 30/07/2015, at 1:59 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> (for Dennis Cooley)
>>
>> to be at play
>> a ploy a
>> gain against
>> the merest entropy
>>
>> of near acquaintance
>> with the slow loss
>> of friends the nearly
>> unseen encroachments
>> of time passed
>> & pissing
>> into a wind keeps blowing
>> hardly felt yet
>> consistently in your hair
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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>> Done in by creation itself.
>>
>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>
>> Robert Kroetsch.
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