Hi James,
I prefer the Recipe poem to this one! But that may be because this feels
like a poet I can't get to like, John Hegley... If you take that as a
compliment that's OK by me. If you take it as something damning, I'm sorry!
Bob
>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: Hot Spell
>Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:44:19 +0000
>
>HOT SPELL
>
>With little but sand
>curved like desert dunes
>on the estuary where
>there has before
>always been water
>you begin to feel closer
>to Babylon on
>the road to Samarkand
>where you will meet
>little water too
>and much rockier places;
>though here in England
>nomads and bandits
>and camel trains
>are anachronistic - well
>maybe the latter for
>urban bedouin do not
>as a rule possess camels.
>
>
>
>bw
>James
>
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