well I seem to have communicated somewhat more than usual, joy,
could be the perspicacity of this list though,
On 17/03/2007, at 22:49, Janet Jackson wrote:
> After that I'm not so sure. It seems kind of... well, it's
> yet another bird poem. And yet another poem about the loneliness
> of the act of writing.
I started it last Sept at Binalong Bay, on the east coast of
Tasmania, my partner Mona is a birdo and corrected my ID of a
warbling song as being that belonging to a Butcher Bird and not a
magpie, as I was struggling with trying to name the process whereby
writing becomes good for more than my lonely self, escape it i guess,
but the thing is the thing, thing don't really mean object, it means
time appointed for a meeting to discuss, well, things, as in they had
a bit of a thing.
it went nowhere for months until I put it in traditional 'I' speak
>
> I feel the last line is trying to tell me something important
> but I'm not sure what. (Should it be "breathe" there rather than
> "breath"?)
>
> Janet
yes it should, (now trying reading it aloud and see how far you get).
meika
http://meika.loofs-samorzewski.com
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