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The searing-heat season,
Summer, comes upon us
Announced by new-crowded
Nooks in A/Ced bookstores.
Perhaps there these humans,
Heedless, will be taught by
Collocated paper
Culture more ignored now.
---L.
Summer, comes upon us
Announced by new-crowded
Nooks in A/Ced bookstores.
Perhaps there these humans,
Heedless, will be taught by
Collocated paper
Culture more ignored now.
—17 April 2002
An experiment (okay, finger exercise) in drottkvaett, an Icelandic form with accentual meter and a complicated pattern of alliteration and assonance. This is the only one I've written that comes close to successful, and that's if you're charitable about the last line (I was trying to say "culture that's ignored now," but was precluded by the form).---L.