Kasper why would you want to fault it you old Finnish troll?
Cheers P
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Sent: 10 January 2007 00:22
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Subject: Re: snap 10 Jan: feathers
amazing, I can't fault it a bit. just seeped & enjoyed. beautiful work
KS
On 10/01/07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> These feathers?
>
> - picked up in the park
> when the morning sun
> brought out their sparkle.
>
> This would be from a magpie
> (local version, pert, musical),
> this from a harsh cockatoo,
>
> this with its speckles
> a crooning tawny frogmouth,
> or a loud kookaburra.
>
> They all had a sheen
> when I pocketed them -
> like the pebbles
>
> on a clear creek bed
> precious while wet only -
> indoors flat as flat.
>
> The rainbow lorikeet
> dead on the roadway -
> to stoop and pluck
>
> would have seemed
> to stoop too far.
> It dazzled still.
>
> This feather, kept apart,
> I brought from Ireland -
> dropped by one of the swans,
>
> soon counted, by the lake
> in Coole Park, no less.
> It lay for decades
>
> on my desk, making my talk
> less abstract, failing
> to lift me into song.
>
>
> 10 January 2007
>
> Max Richards
> Doncaster, Vic.
>
> [thanks to Alison and Randolph; welcome thanks to Anny and Joseph]
>
>
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