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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Ralph Copleman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 11, 2007
6:22 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Beginning a new poem</span></font></p>
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font-family:Times'>Hi,<br>
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I am working on a new poem and would love some assistance. I will place
below some lines I have already drafted. I hope you will catch the scheme
and spirit of my embryonic notion and add to it. (Don’t take
specific details too literally.) And please keep on adding without
changing anyone else’s contributions. It’s raw.
I’ll edit the full compilation later and re-post it. This is
so crazy it just might work, and it’ll be over when it’s over (most
of the practice of poetry is revision and re-writing).<br>
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>The Days of Now </span></b>[working title]<br>
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On the night before Now<br>
we all clambored over and greeted each other.<br>
<br>
Now came the first morning,<br>
We asked each other many conversations<br>
and passed around the shining circle.<br>
<br>
On the second day of Now,<br>
I could see a long way in people’s eyes.<br>
<br>
On the third day of Now,<br>
everyone called up tomorrows,<br>
bellied their laughs<br>
and embraced every future Now<br>
with sweat-slicked arms and braided voices.<br>
<br>
Each night Now the sky<br>
came down to join them.<br>
<br>
On the fourth day of Now<br>
<font color=black><span style='color:black'>they saw magic inside themselves</span></font></span></font></p>
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