on 13/1/03 9:05 am, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> This was a Canada goose on another part of the estuary. There's a huge flock
> of them and it gets noisy at times. It had passed my mind to put something
> together on the general theme, with my goose friend possibly as a unifying
> character. Tell me if you are interested and I'll send a batch.

can't really, James, as I've already published one of them!
bw
SallyE

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>> From: Sally Evans <[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: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 01:17:48 +0000
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>> Hi James, yes. nice. you will have a whole pamphlet on that goose soon!
>> bw
>> SallyE
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>> on 11/1/03 11:47 am, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>>> Another recent rough cut. C&C welcome as always.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> bw
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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