Oooh, we need more dirty talk around here.
Hal
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for expedients, and by parts."
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On Sep 2, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Judy Prince wrote:
> Two members and your ear were definitely right.
>
> joodles
>
> ---- andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I've listened to two members and my own ear, and decided it either
>> had
>> to be formally rhymed and scanned, or rewritten in local language (of
>> sorts) (the cadence of Kimberley speech). I've opted for the latter
>> because I'm only halfway good at the other, and - besides - who needs
>> another old fashioned sonnet? I now like the shifts in register and
>> the imbalance between quoting a Dreamtime story and a literary
>> theorist >g<
>>
>>
>>
>> (title) Gibb River Station
>>
>>
>> Multilingual birds sing over dry leaf
>> maracas on a sunburnt land. See them
>> bad-bugger Brahmin bulls at it - dry creek,
>> no tucker. Red cloud rises but no stockmen
>> see. They're in Derby on the piss. Home alone,
>> tribal law lady lies in bed, Gnarnygin
>> stories in her head: _After the mob left
>> Wandjina came and turned that snake into
>> stone._ I leave my desk to exercise and think.
>>
>> The Kimberley text is in shadow play,
>> outcrop and gorge, red dirt polyglossia
>> of crow claw, roo paw and grader wheels.
>> On the track, Benjamin heightens my tongue:
>> _translation marks their stage of continued life._
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
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>> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
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