> If _Chide_ is your work, Robin, why not give us a sample (and tell us more
> about it)? I think it's great when people share their work with the others
~
> Erminia is very generous there, Dominic too. I personally also don't mind
> getting slated for a poem someone doesn't like, why not? It's all give &
> take.
To clear matters up, says I, peering through the veils of a migraine:
A Chide's Alphabet is edited by me and produced as a web magazine at
www.chidesplay.8m.com. The texts are freely available for personal use and
discussions such as this.
Issue One contains work by Robin Hamilton, Trevor Joyce, Randolph Healy,
Emma Lew, Alison Croggon, Candice Ward, Ian Davidson, Andrew Duncan and
myself.
Issue Two will be available very soon and will include among its
contributors Mark Weiss, Harriet Zinnes, Tim Allen, Patrick Herron, Andrew
Duncan, John Anderson, Alison Croggon, Ian Davidson, Robin Hamilton, Jill
Jones and myself.
Issue One is also available in print (64pp) from Robin Hamilton (UK, price
£2) or Ralph Wessman (Aus, price $4).
(btw bc to Rob - off-line au moment - pc screens and migraines don't go
together)
Best
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
A Chide's Alphabet
www.chidesplay.8m.com
Painting Without Numbers
www.paintstuff.20m.com/default.htm
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin J. Walker" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Letter to a leftist friend/Auden poem/"Homeland"
> I'm quite lost, Candice ~ Bobby Darin? I vaguely remember him, but I don't
> get the connection. Please explain, I love these musical sidelights. By
the
> way : the Emmy Lou Harris disc _Red Dirt Girl_ is great, thanks for the
tip,
> I especially like "Bang the Drum Slowly". I actually prefer the sound to
the
> _Wrecking Ball_, though that's more sophisticated: this has more feeling
to
> me.
> If _Chide_ is your work, Robin, why not give us a sample (and tell us more
> about it)? I think it's great when people share their work with the others
~
> Erminia is very generous there, Dominic too. I personally also don't mind
> getting slated for a poem someone doesn't like, why not? It's all give &
> take.
> The following poem was a response to a poem Harriet Zinnes wrote for
> _Snapshots_, a sort of reverse deconstruction. I think she won't mind my
> including her original once more, as it has been on the list already.
> Lacking very much direct inspiration, I find I come up with things
> responding to others' work, to which I am very grateful. Please criticize
> it.
>
> Harriet Zinnes : _Même L'amour_
> The steps have vanished in the dark.
> Stairs end.
> The glimmer of a light only a reflection
> like the noise of steps long gone.
>
> It is morning now.
> The rooster begins his anthem.
> One leaf falls from the tree.
> One bird (where is his mate?)
> is quiet on the branch.
>
> Do not seek for water.
> The pond has dried up.
> I hear the barking of a dog.
> Fantasy, of course.
>
> M.J.Walker
> _Barking_
> L o v e i s a m e m e
> of course in fantasy,
> it dogs me here,
> completely barking.
> Drying up at the pond
> the water's searching
> for the branch, quiet,
> where its mate, one bird,
> falls from the tree and leaves.
> An anthem is beginning to roost
> anew: it's morning.
> Long gone the steps, the noise-
> like reflection of only a slight glimmer
> ending with the stairs, in the dark
> shed, their vanity
> past it.
>
> August, 2001
>
> best
> Martin
>
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