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Article #382312Re: Skirt of Printed Sunflowers / Will Dockery
From: w...@acm.org (Bi
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:38
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 05:38
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"Will Dockery" <will_d...@outlook.com> wrote: > Skirt of Printed Sunflowers > under the skirts of printed sunflowers. > in a skirt of printed pastel sunflowers. > you and your skirt of bright printed sunflowers. > in your skirt of printed sunflowers. What's distracting to this unpracticed poetry reader is that in these four lines you have three different descriptions of the skirt of printed sunflowers. So I slow down and ask myself: why? It would seem to sing more if you removed "pastel" and "bright". But you must have a reason for putting those words in there. I'm curious. What is that reason? -- Bill Evans / Box 1224 / Mariposa, CA 95338 / (209)742-4720 Mail-To: w...@acm.org -- PGP encrypted mail preferred. -- pgpkey.mariposabill.com for public key. Key #: 8D8B521B PGPprint: 0A9C 3545 8FFF 7501 6265 1519 40FF 76F9 8D8B 521B
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