Great line...maybe could find its way into the poem somehow?
Heather Taylor wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your suggestions - I'm going to make a few tweaks now...
>
> As for playing the game - we did it in the snow as you have to stomp out a
> track (I'm sure you could do it in the sand or draw it out with chalk on a
> big slab of pavement). You make a large circle and have spokes going into
> the centre. This is the track and you can't go off of it in the game. You
> then have someone who is the fox (the person who is 'it') and the others are
> the geese. The fox chases the geese and if a goose is caught they become
> the fox, the old fox is a goose and the game continues...it's just another
> form of tag really.
>
> Funny as I was writing this, I was about to put in the expression "you can't
> tag the butcher" which is what we said as kids all the time as in you can't
> tag the person who tagged you. Anyone know it's origin - I could guess at
> it - as in the person who tags you is "slaughtering" you so they are called
> the butcher...hmmmm....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick McManus [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 14 March 2008 10:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Fox & Geese
>
> Itried to remember fox and geese (well it was a long time ago!)but could not
> find it in wikipedia-does it have another name?? perhaps I could try it with
> my granddaughters??
> Cheers Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Heather Taylor
> Sent: 12 March 2008 10:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fox & Geese
>
> Fox & Geese
>
> I was always one of the first
> Stomping the ground
> Flattening snow in a perfect wheel
> Spokes radiating out from its core.
>
> Only boys played this, the boys and me
> The unofficial member of the testosterone clan,
> Circling each other in our game of fox catch goose
> Sometimes me the pursuer, sometimes them
> The thoughts of kisses left for other years.
>
>
>
--
Tad Richards
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The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
--Corey Ford
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