That final stanza comes out of nowhere, Doug and sets a reader back, to the beginning again and again. Is the extra spacing in line 8 deliberate and is the final word 'away'?
Bill
> On 20 Aug 2015, at 1:50 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> to say without saying
> an ancient politics
> when exile waited
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> on every publication
> as a possibility
> silence not included
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> those migrating geese
> say their unruffled
> flight a way
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Robert Kroetsch.
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