those three thousand names
still read aloud each year
who could count the leaves
turned colour on this given day
these words that count
to whom do they belong
counting the days years
video mourning carries on
how many bodies burn / burnt
buried on their broken knees in Persia now
(you will note below where some of this came from)
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Four or five couplets trying to dance
into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
Phyllis Webb
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