A sport genetically - I wonder now if it is an OK idiom...
On 6/2/08 7:33 PM, "Janet Jackson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> very descriptive.
> I don't understand "a sport"
> J
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> On 06/02/2008, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Snap: two old claret ash trees
>>
>> At inland Harcourt, among apple orchards,
>> see: two big old claret ash trees,
>> one vast one thriving, the other cut into bits
>> and made a tall stack for firewood.
>>
>> Well-stacked! cone-shaped round its still-rooted
>> stripped spine. To the spiky wooden steeple
>> an odd bit of wood had been fastened
>> like a fierce beaked animal. Overnight
>>
>> it dislodged itself, but the stack,
>> when I thought to climb and refix it,
>> too unstable on the outer layer
>> for anyone not nimble and light.
>>
>> Mustard-coloured lichens on both:
>> artistry now fading from the bark
>> strips of the dead dismembered tree.
>> Not all that old as trees go:
>>
>> the first, a sport, was in 1910
>> in a South Australian nursery.
>> We hear therešs a new miniature breed
>> of claret ashes; go for that one.
>>
>> Wednesday 6 February 2008
>>
>> Max Richards
>> Doncaster, Victoria
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