Many thanks to you Perpetua for being particularly stern with Mr Goose, who
is very real, and barely two hundred yards/metres from where I sit,
wallowing as usual at the river's edge, or perhaps in it. Thanks too to
Frank and Sally for comments and you all for liking this charming fellow.
bw
James
>From: Perpetua Pullman <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: The Goose
>Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:27:41 +0000
>
>your Mr. Goose is a lovely chap, James, but I want to take , no, I am going
>to take my editors pen and tackle all those abstractions. I want more of
>those images as rich as your goose (just don't ask about the gravy......)
>
>P-P
>
>
>>THE GOOSE
>>
>>Today he stands at the water's edge
>>and [looks back down beyond] this is repetitious and dreary, give me a
>>picture
>>his second winter on this estuary.
>>
>>A face fronted by an orange beak
>>is [not designed for subtle expression] POMPOUS, though
>>the way his head moves back and forth
>>
>>tells of an increasing melancholy.
>>Small eyes search the sky
>>for other traces of his kind passing by.
>>
>>Today his feathers glow more goose
>>[white] than usual against the [grey] silver
>>of river mud and sluggish water.
>>
>>His gait and gracelessness [should
>>not now be taken] for a swan
>>out of water. He now holds
>>
>>his head aloft to state "goose"
>>and not hook necked down in the style
>>of a too royal water bird.
>>
>>Goose and me understand how
>>[image or identity can be thwarted
>>in a largely duck populated world] please say this in a way that doesn't
>>sound like a third-rate psychology essay
>>
>>[when even the most baleful
>>goose honk unleashed upon
>>all those around can go unheard].whatever you're trying to say here is
>>lost
>>in the syntax
>>
>>James Bell
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>Perpetua Pullman
>
>
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James
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