Bruce Hamilton

140 Shorties Iii: [yet More Verse Bits] Bruce Hamilton

140 SHORTIES III might seem to be positing, over and over, the possibility of magnificence in a relatively trivial and silly private format. That format not only includes relative brevities. It also includes clumps of titles that rhyme with each other and includes a rather special back-&-forth way of moving from one versification to the next. The entire group of 140 pieces ultimately must be more of a verbal success than that same group ever could be any fount of real news or of anything like real 'info'. The following couple of examples might seem about averagely illustrative: LIFT Lift us abovehate and love. We remain quietregarding life's dietof infinite passionsin endless fashions. Tending to senseno recompenseworth much while, I hereby styletoward neutral smile. DRIFTDrift upon driftof new-fallen snowhas given us dreams. A brave recallingwould be of scenesseemingly lost. Those sceneswould shine beacons. Every shiningmight seemalmost informative.