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From: eetee@iglou.com (Eric Taylor)
Subject: Re: REQ:  A swan
Date: 1996/08/20
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Kish <kish@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

>> 
>> Keith H. (klh@ripco.com) wrote:
>> 
>> >If anyone has an ascii-art rendering of a swan, please post it.
>> >No ugly ducklings, please.
>> 



>                Dusk
>              above the
>          water hang the
>                    loud
>                   flies
>                   Here
>                  O so
>                 gray
>                then
>               what            A pale signal will appear
>              when        Soon before its shadow fades
>             where      Here in this pool of opened eye
>            in us     No upon us As at the very edges
>             of where we take shape in the dark air
>              This object bares its image awakening
>                ripples of recognition that will
>                   brush darkness up into light
>even after this bird this hour both drift byatop the perfect
>sad instant now     already passing out of sight
>                 toward yet-untroubled reflection
>               this image bares its object darkening
>              into memorial shades scattered bits of
>            light      No of water Or something across
>            water        Breaking up no being regathered
>             soon          Yet by then a swan will have
>              gone              yes out of mind into what
>               vast
>                pale
>                 hush
>                  of a
>                  place
>                   past
>         sudden dark as
>             if a swan
>                sang


very cool!
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                               Eric W. Taylor (eetee@iglou.com)

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