Thanks, Kasper,
And this line of yours is beautiful:
moving to western Helsinki with my girlfriend on the first of feb.
Best wishes from Max
On 16/1/08 9:35 PM, "kasper salonen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> very serene & rich with imagery. the endling line is pretty beautiful.
>
> I love "bee music in the limes", is that an actual quote? & who is Rawnsley?
>
> KS
>
> On 16/01/2008, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Snap: Remember the Lakes?
>>
>> Jeff writes: Max, you will recall
>> sitting on a bench at Rydal Mount
>> amidst Wordsworth¹s rhododendrons
>> (were they?), and
>>
>> perched on a square pillar
>> at the bottom of some stone steps
>> the curious stone ornament
>> about the size of a basketball
>> which fell on (and injured) W¹s gardener¹s foot?
>>
>> and listening to my reading
>> from one of Rawnsley¹s books of sonnets?
>> Yes, the Rawnsley who wrote down
>> what the locals thought of Wordsworth.
>>
>> You might also recall how R was unhappy
>> about telephone wires and a large red PO letter box
>> just below Wordsworth¹s house, and mused
>> (right where we were sitting/standing)
>> about ³bee music in the limes².
>>
>> Dear Jeff, Recall? I do recall our week
>> back in ¹74 in that rented cottage, five of us.
>> And the road-kill pheasant you retrieved,
>> hung in the pantry, which stank us out.
>>
>> And the rain, the churchyard at Cartmel,
>> and Ruskin¹s lovely-sad place by the water.
>> But Rydal Mount? What I recall is
>> reading about it. Rawnsley?
>> one of your enthusiasms
>>
>> I do recall your enthusiasm,
>> your dragging me scrambling
>> up the perils of Striding Edge....
>> yes, I must have been there, partly there.
>>
>> Max Richards
>> Doncaster, Vic
>>
>> Wednesday 16 January 2008
>>
>>
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