Thanks, Doug L On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That loss & that seeking, they do connect, & here, caught, Lawrence. > > Doug > On Jan 28, 2015, at 9:41 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Lawrence, there is something very important that this poem generates in > > terms of a reality that sleeps in us, I believe. It goes somewhere. I > > appreciate it. Sheila > > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:58 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask] > > > > wrote: > > > >> I said once, to myself > >> > >> or perhaps to my lover, > >> > >> that being close to animals > >> > >> will make us more human: > >> > >> > >> > >> she sneered at me > >> > >> for speaking to a donkey - conversationally - > >> > >> on our way to eat, > >> > >> my hands danked by donkey tongue... > >> > >> > >> > >> it is two way, not magic - > >> > >> a rabbit's foot does nothing > >> > >> but lames the rabbit -- > >> > >> > >> > >> seek out animals > >> > >> like one who lost them -- > >> > >> non-speakers > >> > > > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 > (UofAPress). > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > that we are only > as we find out we are > > Charles Olson >