Hi Bill liked gist of this -not sure you need brackets-personally I
preferred the ending to the first version -the second version ending seemed
to this old soul a bit clunky -maybe it's just me !!cheers P
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Subject: Drifters
Drifters
First drift
Can words drift
into poetry,
(begin prosaically,
informatively, looking
for all the world at first,
like workmanlike,
jobbing sentence components)
and then,
(right under your eyes as it were,
before you're aware)
transform
through dent of odd
placement
or line
turn,
into thought-provocative
perception-inverters,
mood-changers,
joy inspirers,
propellers
into the
uncanny?
Second drift
Can words drift into poetry?
Beginning prosaically,
informatively, looking
for all the world,
to be workmanlike,
jobbing sentence components,
then right beneath your eyes,
as it were,
before you're aware,
transforming,
through dent of odd
placement
or line
turn,
into mood-changers,
joy-inspirers,
perception-inverters,
propellers
into uncanny mind zones?
bw
22 .7.15
Preferences, other ideas, people of the poetryetc?
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