I'm not sure about coathangers - my reader loved all of the work but
that part of the line. But it's what I saw!
Contumacy - I have loved the sensuous involvement of that word
forever...
Cal
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Caleb Yes those coathangerlegs
Had to look up contumacy!!!
P
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From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
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Sent: 14 June 2006 05:04
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Subject: Snap - The heron 14/06
The heron
The heron glide in on flannelmist dawn;
under the snout of darkness they whisper their contumacy.
By the sun they are camped in the breaking frost.
Unlike the ibis, that quizzical apothecary's clerk, or the wistful
moorhen,
the heron do not deign to linger, or to ask.
But raid moist soil, dead dams and trunks; organise sentries, feed and
shit and leave,
scribing their pendant traceries against the sky with legs as comical as
bent coathangers.
Caleb Cluff
Majorca, Victoria
14/06/06
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