Cambridge WAS ages ago, my good man :-) Maybe we can do it all again
somewhere, sometime. With the same 'gang', only I'll bring my new muse
along ... If I find an English publisher for my novel, I'll be over to
launch it. (Any excuse ...)
Cheers to your muse and Robin and Roger and the man with the kebabs ...
Andrew
On 01/12/06, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Andrew was just looking at 'the whispering Gallery'(by one Andrew
> Burke!)-Cambridge seems ages ago if you take the dustcover off it is a
> nameless book--very whispery
> Re snap----Yoko Ono?? Funny she kept getting in the way here
> Greets to china & everybody
> P tarantismus P
>
> -----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: 30 November 2006 09:06
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Snap ; Draft Four
>
> I haven't a Snap to offer this week, but I have been working on an
> earlier one, now in its fourth draft. I thought some may be interested
> in seeing its progress:
>
> THIMBLES OF GREEN TEA / draft 5
>
>
> 8:14, Linfen on
> Thanksgiving eve,
> 2006, and I've been eating dumplings
> with Yoko because we invited her
> then drank green tea by the thimble full.
>
> We spoke of war and
> the alternatives for
> USA now : drop the stick,
> teach others to use the stick, or
> wield a bigger stick .
>
> we gave Yoko an Aussie keyring
> as she left / a koala
> sunning itself on Bondi beach / so
>
> more dumplings for lunch tomorrow .
> I read incoming email to the strains of
> Charlie Haden's _American Dream_ /
> forecast: two below zero with snow-
>
> white but for a minute before
> it turns black / before filthy sludge
> dirties the streets of ancient Linfen /
>
> I write between the flags to avoid
> the censor's swift attack / and part
> the bamboo curtain to pour
> another thimble of green tea
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
>
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Andrew
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