Yes, Patrick, Carlton has a strikingly 'modern'-looking library inserted in
a streetscape still fairly 19th century, and many tree-lined streets.
Lygon Street still has some Italian eateries with a guy out the front
inveigling you in, but most is now fairly classy. Buskers with talent.
Boutiques I have to drag my wife away from. Readings Books & Records packed
with temptations. However, staying at the Zoo...? How did you sleep while
the lions etc roared through the night?
Best from Max
On 27/04/11 7:55 PM, "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Didn't Carlton have a nice Library@ I was there decades ago and those
> trams???lots pizza places
> P of failing memory _I was staying at the Zoo at the time - :-)
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 27 April 2011 08:16
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Snap: Passing and Following
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> Passing and Following
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> Women with their beauty flow
> along the pavement; my eyes follow.
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> Tolerant, to my relief, my wife
> also admires such lovely life.
>
> We¹re in Carlton - a gentrified part
> of older Melbourne, but not too smart.
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> Dawdling over cake and coffee
> we¹re enjoying all the passersby,
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> the children and some of the men,
> but specially the handsome women.
>
> ŒAren¹t their faces familiar? I
> half expect them to recognize me.¹
>
> Carlton is her Œheartland¹. She smiles:
> ŒOh, their mothers might have once.¹
>
> Yes, or their grandmothers, forsooth.
> She says (as so often): Œthe bloom of youth,
>
> it soon passes.¹ Here it passes constantly.
> ŒYou still glow,¹ I say, Œfrom inside.¹
>
> She smirks and kicks my ankle - gently.
> The café staff are joking and pretty.
>
> Everyone¹s eyes are now following
> a passing mother and girl-child glowing.
>
>
> Max Richards - at Brunetti¹s - April 2011
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