[New-Poetry] For the WEPD experiment: Houseman's Poem

[Halvard Johnson]

If you haven't seen blossoming cherry trees hung with literal snow, Bob,
you've
never lived in Washington, DC.

Hal

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

>
>  You could argue that it's a stretch, perhaps, but I don't think it's
> blatantly wrong.
>
> Agreed.
>
>  The poem doesn't have any hard evidence against it.
>
> But it does: And since because the speaker has little time "to look at
> things in BLOOM," he is going into the woodlands to see the cherry hung with
> snow.  If they're literally hung with snow, they won't be in bloom.  To be
> reminded of blooms is not looking at them.
>
> --Bob
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