Fascinating glimpse, Doug. So the eye camera takes in far more than any
camera camera?
Bill
On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 5:47 am, Millicent Borges Accardi <
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> I like the way the enjambment holds the poem together tightly, like a
> not-so-gentle hand guiding the reader, who seems about to leap off the edge
> of a cliff into the ocean below.
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> What was the photograph or painting?
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> Água mole em pedra dura tanto dá até que fura
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> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> the far horizon
> hangs there grey
> & cut off by camera
> s edge a shade
> of distance difference
> caught in perfect focus
> as below each piece
> of land sea bridge
> holds the eye first also
> focused perfectly
> till it drops to
> that lower window
> vertigo of straight down
> through girders rails
> to the always waiting sea
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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> Shakespeare
> Drag yr mouldy old bones
> Up these stairs & tell me
> What you died of,
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> I’ve got it
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