Segues: #1 of 1,000,000 - Responding to Notice What This Poem is Not Doing

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but . . .

aye... yet there was....

..chance providing. . . simple sensing. . .
.....subverting . . . drifting . . . floating . . .
inordinate co-axialating . . . latitudinal paralleling . . .

......deeply delving . . . verticalizing . . .
............fossorial faunching . . .

. --r.anderson


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(The Day Without Nouns)

Just for (the span of the sun and moon)
Name ( ) no thing
Along comes --blank-- the dark time

Make it (more than okay), let it
Be yours if there was a Name for that
Yet more, let it be beyond the gerund

Speak no (noun-meaning-word), just
pass along the (angled land) as if
There never was youth or (caution).

No need to Name the (feathered ones)
Sort the calls and cries (slot them)
in memory and (forget)


.....responding to William Stafford's Notice
.....What This Poem is Not Doing. The
.....original title of the response via
.....fortuitous typo, "The Day Without Nous." KB

See http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/William-Stafford/1649