Still not sure.
I think it may be slipping away from me.
Technically Speaking
One draws upon a memory of process,
for instance - I can cry
for an audience, or camera
body inching through each physical step.
But, draw direct upon the memory itself
she warned
and you will (as they all do)
burn.
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>From: andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: another late snap (11 November)
>Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:10:29 +0800
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>Max, it reminded me a lot of home. I remembered to Remember on
>Remembrance Day, and was quiet anyway at the appointed minute(s). Btw,
>my grandfatherly name in China is Poppy, which helped me remember.
>
>Andrew
>
>On 16/11/06, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>Saturday morning in the shopping mall,
>>early November, my eye falls
>>on the reinstated Nativity scene,
>>rough plaster animals, Holy
>>Family like unwelcome migrants,
>>Wise Men behaving anomalously.
>>
>>Next, nearby, a vast shiny
>>green red and gold contraption ready
>>to serve as Santa's cave.
>>His old throne awaits his advent.
>>
>>The p.a. system forces Christmas carols
>>in all ears. Till - cutting across,
>>comes a bugle call, and a voice intoning
>>At the going down of the sun...
>>Right now of course it's just eleven a.m.
>>
>>Older folk freeze, stand at attention.
>>Most aren't listening, or
>>don't know what it's for.
>>I put down the bargain book
>>I was fingering, and note I've yet again
>>neglected to take a poppy
>>from the old man with a tray.
>>
>>Max Richards
>>
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