SUBJECT>Re: ** Roll Call POSTER>Asher EMAIL> DATE>1111554688 IP_ADDRESS>dyn129-100-110-197.weldon.lib.uwo.ca PREVIOUS>85201 NEXT> IMAGE> LINKNAME> LINKURL>

Hi Geoff--

This is different than your usual poems...I see that you're moving back into more layered language and sensual images, which is cool. I like this a lot...I'm not quite sure that the first strophe is needed here, as it doesn't add anything, as far as I can see. This I like, a great deal (and I'm not one to flatter:-) Those last two lines offer open up some interesting thoughts...

Scarlet from scalp to wing-tip
a full cardinal poses
upon one treetop branch
rather like that cardinal
ruled this young elm
from an earlier year --
but [it's not that cardinal,]
it's another, stranger cardinal
upon another treetop branch,
[:] some other observer