Thanks Philip,
I don't know where the "know" came from but it has to go.



bw
James





>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re Re: New sub: Starting Again
>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:29:23 +0000
>
>I love "block of time", and harks back to the ice in the "icy wind" (ice
>block?). I'd do without "emerging from" and settle for, say,  "... after
>my/the heated building" as being the more conversational and compact. Is
>"know" intentional.
>
>You make me hanker after a winter waterside. I'm off now to the source of
>The River Ribble, which emerges from old coal measures, and has recently
>been cleaned of its polluting iron. We are looking for the first kingfisher
>(often to be seen on the neighbouring, smaller, River Spodden which becomes
>famous as it runs through Healey Dell nature reserve with its elegant
>highest railway viaduct in Britain at 110 metres, now on a footpath, the
>railway having been axed, but it needs a head for heights!
>Philip
>
>
>
>>From: James Bell <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: New sub: Starting Again
>>Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 11:47:10 +0000
>>
>>I'm sending out quite frequently and hope I am not breaking with posting
>>protocols. This one entered the notebook in early January:
>>
>>STARTING AGAIN
>>
>>It's that hiatus at the end of one year
>>and the beginning of another
>>to see how things will start off again.
>>
>>You'd think that by this time every inch
>>of this estuary would be know to you
>>at least from this point of view
>>
>>where today's wind is becoming icy,
>>not a blast, but rising to make your eyes
>>water after emerging from a heated building -
>>
>>the sounds are welcome, something you notice,
>>the chop of water, itself rising
>>to its own onomatopaeia.
>>
>>As usual time is an issue, for your release
>>is conditional on return, that the piper
>>will be paid in full again util 5 o'clock
>>
>>though for several more minutes your hands
>>continue to chill as this is written and your
>>senses are on high alert for inspiration
>>
>>and you feel less at the beginning now
>>than having already started another block of time.
>>
>>
>>
>>bw
>>James
>>
>>
>>
>>
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