you're too kind, Judy. I wouldn't recommend Faustian bargains though, they
have consequences.
I have a confession: it really happened on Monday, not Tuesday, night. The
rest was the fortuitous to hand of mischance.
best
dave
2009/5/21 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
> Oh egad and I had just been listening to Ruth Padel on her website reading
> a
> couple of her poems. I said out loud, "Birk blew her outa the water in one
> line of his snap." Now, several hours later, I thought it reasonable to
> say
> it out loud to you. Because it's true. Believe me, dear David, if I could
> attract a Faustian bargain for True Poetry like yours, I'd quickly manage
> my
> wrestled soul for the joy of seeing my words----just seeing the
> words----and kneeling at poetry's miracle, bargain-bartered or nae.
> A fruitful, brilliant bit o work, Birk.
>
> joodles
>
> 2009/5/20 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Hexagram 23
> >
> > The bed collapsed last night. Underneath sleep. When I unrolled the
> > morning I found a spliver, that’s a hair-crack, reaching out like a twig
> > from a retaining screw, that had spread, nightly as I slept, throughout
> the
> > frame. Of pine, pine wood.
> > I retain the original split, a splinter, no more than an inch and a half
> by
> > a quarter, and pages two hundred and nine to two hundred and twelve of a
> > book by Terry Pratchett, concerning the Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, which
> I
> > discovered at my feet where the bed had been. Unsupported by which – bed
> > or
> > prophecies – O cosmos, I rest.
> >
> > David Bircumshaw
> > "Nothing can be done in the face
> > of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> >
>
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David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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