Yes, Andrew, this is getting to the point, pointing the ways, much better....
Doug
Quoting "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>:
> What do retired people who write poetry do but fiddle and fart around with
> their own words. Here is the latest and perhaps last version of that lumpy
> text I threw at you earlier this week. Thanks to Judy, Patrick, Doug,
> Frederick and anyone else who addressed the mess for me. Off list, Andrew
> Taylor also helped steer me right.
>
> The Poetical Works (title)
>
> Forty six years on
> and still I warm my hands
> over it. It opens me out like
> a choir singing rounds
> in eighteenth century London.
> I take it down from the shelf to
> remember her now, sophisticated lady
> who in a Sydney harbourside mansion
> placed Blake's poems in my hands,
> me in my overalls and boots, and said,
> 'We've been waiting for you.' She
> patted Blake's flimsy skin
> aged to a cream veinless patina.
> 'We know you'll enjoy this , boy.'
>
> Alf, ragged aged removalist,
> said, 'Let's go.' I went
> down my own back roads
> since then, through cities and fields,
> to land awkwardly as a pelican on
> this seat this morning
> to remember my bottle-scarred muse, alive
> with Blake's pulse in the skein of days.
>
>
>
> Thanks all.
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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