very descriptive.
I don't understand "a sport"
J
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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