Thanks, Vincent. Chris may be right there are lines better snipped.
While I'm here - a question -
My wife has in mind reading out Robt Lowell's Skunk Hour in a psychotherapy
class. My mind's not right etc.
BUT can she get her listeners not to worry about the earlier phrase
about 'our fairy decorator'?
I suggest she quietly changes fairy to gay, but I know it's a tampering not
ordinarily to be countenanced.
Max
On 31/03/11 8:10 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Max - a generous, loving Large piece. thank you!
>
> Stephen Vincent
>
> --- On Tue, 3/29/11, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: snap: seasons
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 4:45 PM
>
> Seasons - a toast
>
> Autumn so soon!
> Summer shot through -
>
> just one beach,
> coolish; one
>
> mountain drive.
> Scarcely a single
>
> old-style heat-wave
> when you just lie low.
>
> And Winter soon, more
> funerals of folk my age -
>
> perhaps my own.
> Spring? nothing
>
> I could say that's fresh,
> let alone sing.
>
> Should I be here
> to greet it silently
>
> that would be enough.
> You in your other
>
> hemisphere, you
> topsy turvy
>
> temperate-zone
> northern antipodeans,
>
> in places where Easter
> is a spring festival,
>
> here's health and long
> life to all of us
>
> south and north,
> old and young,
>
> pious or pagans,
> observing the seasons.
>
> Birds are at the apple trees
> competing with us humans.
>
> Max Richards
> Melbourne
> late March 2011
>
>
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