Reads well, Andrew.. A little anniversary gift, eh?
Doug
On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:12 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thank you, Bill and Sheila. I thank all who contributed responses earlier -
> you all helped me write the rewrite.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 6 March 2015 at 15:40, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I like this so much, Andrew. There is a feeling of closeness that pervades
>> the poem. "disturbs in bed" is lovely.
>>
>> Thank you. Sheila
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Community
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *I may want to lie still*
>>>
>>> *And think about my choices.*
>>>
>>> - *Rae Armantrout*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I lie in late
>>>
>>> beside my wife
>>>
>>> listening to the first birds
>>>
>>> of the third day of autumn.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When their song pauses
>>>
>>> I slowly swing my legs over
>>>
>>> bed's edge and contemplate
>>>
>>> our day while the blood
>>>
>>> settles in my flow pattern.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bird song begins again.
>>>
>>> I whistle back, hoarsely,
>>>
>>> and my wife disturbs in bed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ii
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Which t-shirt will I wear?
>>>
>>> Shakespeare quote,
>>>
>>> Beckett portrait, or
>>>
>>> the black one, the one I call
>>>
>>> *Night Life in Corowa*?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> iii
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It's Tuesday. Today
>>>
>>> the Country Women's Association
>>>
>>> meets in the corrugated red hall
>>>
>>> opposite the IGA Supermarket.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> My wife returns with
>>>
>>> Pelargonian plants to plant
>>>
>>> and a book of craft patterns,
>>>
>>> aptly called *Closely*KNIT.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
There is no life that does not rise
melodic from scales of the marvelous.
To which our grief refers.
Robert Duncan.
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