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Date:         Mon, 6 Sep 1993 18:00:03 JST
Reply-To:     WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Sender:       WRITERS <WRITERS@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
From:         Mike Barker <barker@AEGIS.OR.JP>
Subject:      SUB?: re: Recent poetry on the list,
              specifically Foggy Mists and...

[if you missed Randy's comments - wonderful lesson on One Way to
Structure a Poem.  Go back and read...]

In Consideratum, Master Money

start at the wrong end of a telescope,
and even the largest building is vanishingly small,
lost in the optics, shrinking the view
to a comic hue.

but from the end that fits your eye,
the distant haze springs into clarity,
tiny men are giants striding,
and life shows hidden secrets

in a poet's hand.

(like that, randy? [pun intentional])
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