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    Quote Originally Posted by Jee Leong View Post

    hehe
    drunk on shots
    of forsythia
    I like that one.
    I've always admired the way forsythia blooms the same time as pink cherries.


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    Thanks, W.G. McLeod, Brian, Donner, and Claire, for your song, stories, pics, and comments.



    in the manila folder
    the color of forsythia
    a festival program

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    Nice one, Jee. Is that the post-NaPo festival? We should all go. I particularly loved the forsythia dropping its medals.

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    I like the use of 'festival program' because its a kind of natural juxtaposition. It makes me think of the order and disorder in nature.

    You make just a couple of words do a mountain of thinking.

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    Thanks, Janet and Steven.


    running into
    a peck of pigeons
    cloudburst

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    lit by the sun
    the dogwood flicks
    its white ash

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    Jee, I like seeing these one place and then coming here to read them again, good work, tough to be so concise. You've captured spring well!

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    running into
    a peck of pigeons
    cloudburst


    yes.

    This has been one of my favourite threads, many crystal-clear moments.

    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jee Leong View Post
    lit by the sun
    the dogwood flicks
    its white ash
    I really like this! I don't think I've ever seen a flowering tree represented as a cigarette.

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    Featherless Biped is offline Ray to rhyme with bay; not Rae to rhyme with bae
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    Back to pick out one last round of highlights: The drag queen tulips are wonderful! (And of course they're late.) The forsythias are also great--especially the shots of them, since "hehe" is just such a drunk thing to type. The incognito ones are also particularly charming. The cloudburst of pigeons is just gleeful--it somehow reminds me of how my my old border collie loved to chase kites (the bird not the toy) for hours. And the white man moon poem is wonderfully multiply ambiguous: is the narrator looking at the man in the moon or mooning a white man, and if the latter, exactly what species of rude or erotic gesture is that meant to be?

    It's been lovely reading you.

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    Thank you, Mary, Steven, triding, and Rachael, for reading.

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    Hi Jee, this is a superb thread, and I've enjoyed reading its contents a great deal. I love 'running into a peck of pigeons'; the contrast between the two kinds of movement is wonderful.

    Matthew

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    Reading up on Gary Snyder today, I thought of your thread. It was a pleasure reading your poems in April.


    ...When
    snow melts back
    from the trees
    bare branches knobbed pine twigs
    hot sun on wet flowers
    green shoots of huckleberry
    breaking through snow.
    ...

    -Snyder, A Berry Feast

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    Thanks, Matthew and Claire, for your company this NaPo.

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