Thanks, Anny. This started as something very specific about the cards
received and to be sent in my official capacity. I'm interested that it
seems to have wider resonances. I might work with it a bit more...
Regards
Martin
> They are definitely Xmas cards but I'd like to read this poem as if cards
> were days, events, things happening, and I like it very much.
>
> On Dec 12, 2007 12:08 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> Thanks Martin -yes I can identify -and me being an old nasty atheist -have
>> taught most of my friends Except from a few die hard aunties to stop
>> sending
>> baby Jesuses flying angels and even shepherds are frowned upon unless
>> atheist shepherds
>> Patrick
>> Ps am trying not to do cards this year cor!!!!
>> Seasons greets P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Martin Dolan
>> Sent: 12 December 2007 07:30
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Snap: Official Greetings
>>
>> The cards sidle in, singly,
>> in pairs - restrained, official
>> bonhomie in approved form
>> the clean and careful noting
>> of a generic season.
>>
>> See here a star, any star
>> and here a fir tree reduced
>> to lines and angles, to Euclid.
>> This latest shows a landscape
>> unpeopled, temperate.
>>
>> There is the pile for sending,
>> flat and arid as the rest
>> designed to avoid offence.
>> Now hand and pen vacillate
>> over a personal touch.
>>
>> Canberra, 12 December
>>
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