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Subject:

Re: sub - study of a canberra fountain

From:

Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>

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The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:52:10 +0000

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Hi Frank,
My first thought, when I first read this, was, "I wonder what the fountain 
thinks..." I guess it could feel pleased about some things, awkward about 
others, and (like a few fountains I've passed) utterly pissed off by most 
folk that pass.
I guess all fountains sort of sneak off their pedastles in the middle of the 
night (when no-one's around) and wander off somewhere to write their diaries 
of the day's events).
Anyway, that was my first thought, when I first read it... and it's my first 
thought now as well!
Bob


>From: Frank Faust <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: sub - study of a canberra fountain
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:39:07 +1000
>
>at first glance it seems a christmas tree
>rising from short trunk
>widening then climbing to apex and point
>water cascading down the circular sides
>
>it is in fact a diamond inverted
>triangular metal bars ascending to points
>level upon level
>a splay pattern of hexagonal facets
>
>water streams from the cap of the upper level
>down the metal tubes to a gutter
>channels to the next cap
>down metal tubes to gutter
>through three levels
>then slides facet to air
>forming breaking and re-forming unsupported triangles
>that start wide then narrow to a thin stream
>that strikes the surrounding pool
>with its stray handful of well-wished coins
>lapping gently past the reaching hand of a small child
>draped across the brickwork barrier
>before rising again through the trunk toward the apex peak
>
>the mother has risen now
>time to journey on
>within the movement of transient shoppers in a misted background
>that forms sub-text to the constant
>of cascading water
>in the endless cycle of a fountain in the square
>of the canberra centre
>~
>
>Frank
>~
>
>
>The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
>http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
>
>
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