Hi Judy - thanks for that...
The performance I'm doing is at 8 pm at the Poetry Café. I'll send
another e-mail around with the details for everyone else :)
H
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Judy Prince
Sent: 14 November 2005 13:35
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Another extremely late snap
Heather, you're lovely "Summertime"---excellent excellent. i feel as if
i'd been there (and in my era and country, i actually was). "Juvie" is
the same word used in the U.S. of A.
eager to hear/see you at Covent Garden 23 November, m' dear! Do you
know the time of the performance?
'Til soon,
Judy
> From: Heather Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2005/11/14 Mon AM 08:03:50 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Another extremely late snap
>
> Hmmm....I guess it's like the jam between the bread of Wednesdays...?
>
> Ah...Juvie is a slang word for Juvenile Hall (teens go there for
various
> stints if under 18 and committed a semi serious crime...don't know
what
> it's called where you are...)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patrick Mc
Manus
> Sent: 13 November 2005 17:53
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Another extremely late snap
>
> When does an extremely late snap become an early one?
> So it ended up Poet futures
> What's Juvie??
> Thanks P love P
> Ps glad it all turned out well
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heather Taylor
> Sent: 12 November 2005 01:29
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Another extremely late snap
>
> As Andrew was so late, I thought you'd forgive another one...
>
> Summertime
>
> Over old maid and crazy eight, we'd spend nights
> whispering lawyer/doctor/Hollywood futures,
> pretending to ignore the boy next door
> fresh from Juvie and blowing us kisses.
>
> Years later, friend's parents richer than ours,
> we'd spend summer nights with those strangers
> tasting fenced backyards, deluxe BBQs
> and 3 car garage Range Rover families.
>
> We'd never speak about the girls we were:
> Our summer vacations confined to shared backsteps,
> us left playing card games past mosquito thresholds
> under rows of porch lights strung like patio lanterns.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Burke
> Sent: 12 November 2005 00:59
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: extremely late snap
>
> Thanks, Fred. Yes, it was a poetry workshop yesterday afternoon at a
> live-in
> detox centre out of town for mums. The boy was four and quiet but
> mischievous. I could see him playing with word cards on the floor,
then
> rolling himself up with them spilling out of the rug - a really good
> image
> of making a poem! The ladies were not so inventive. I wanted to get
down
> there on the floor with him and play with words - but ya carn't do
dat,
> can
> ya!
>
> Thanks for your suggestions. I will certainly look at them, and
> particularly
> bring the 'myself' up onto the line before. 'Stagy' would be awful to
> be!
> :-)
>
> If I could only export this day in Perth to you all, you'd enjoy it:
> only a
> breeze in the highest limbs of the gum trees and a gentle sun bathing
> the
> suburb in light. Three ducks on the verge having waddled up from the
> river.
> Not a sound at the moment (we live at the end of a cul de sac) and all
> the
> kids must be sleeping in. & the dogs are asleep in the sunshine and
the
> birds have stopped their early morning tweeting. Bewdiful day.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 8:12 AM
> Subject: Re: extremely late snap
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andrew Burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 7:25 PM
> > Subject: extremely late snap
> >
> >
> > she gave me lip
> > and when I gave her lip back
> > she gave me
> >
> > breakfast
> > bacon and eggs
> > (the oysters of the suburbs
> >
> > ((out of statement
> > into light
> > weeds grow
> > over his defence)) )
> >
> > *
> >
> > ... as you drive out
> > West Swan Road
> > you'll see flowers stall
> > and strawberries ripen
> >
> > *
> >
> > the bored boy
> > shuffles the word cards
> > on the floor
> >
> > and rolls himself
> > up in the rug ...
> > this is poetry,
> > I tell them
> >
> > the kid's got it right
> >
> > *
> >
> > the prettiest girl
> > in the tightest jeans
> > gets my attention
> >
> > 'form and content'
> > I tell them, not
> > content at all
> > myself
> >
> > Love it. Really needs a title. "them" in last stanza is apparently
a
> > class - but why make reader hesitate over a minor point? Say "I
tell
> the
> > class." And "myself" as isolated line feels stagy - wouldn't lose
by
> having
> > it follow "all." --- "flowers stall" marvelous. Jolly depressed
poem.
> >
>
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