Glad we raised a chuckle, and even more glad you consider it one of my best.
I do a lot of estuary watching during my lunch break these days. Gets me out
to look at a different perspective on things
bw
James
>From: Christina Fletcher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub:Luck
>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:06:27 EST
>
>Haaa! This is utterly charming, James. What a lovely poem. I've a very
>soft spot for birds anyway but I'm getting all sorts of images from this
>and
>a very direct sense of the narrator. I think it's one of your best. Very
>funny but with layers. I think you could sharpen the language a bit but
>this
>one's giving me to much fun to criticise it so I'll leave that to others.
>bw
>christina
>
>
> >
> > LUCK
> >
> > Sound comes as an instant
> > break to silence - this one
> > from a goose that stirs
> > other responses in its colony
> > on a distant bare sandbar -
> > echoes all over the estuary.
> >
> > Gulls reply from this side
> > and neither know nor care
> > whether they can be heard
> > over there for its difficult
> > to be a gull and modulate
> > your tone when nature only
> > gave you one note on a scale
> > and a very short larynx.
> >
> > The longer you sit and look out
> > on the river before you
> > the more you begin to feel lucky.
>
>
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