Andrew,
to truly love and tell the author is a delight.
As mentioned a moment ago responding to Doug,
I've got out two booklets of mostly poetryetc items - how they accumulate!
and next year may even get out a third and a fourth.
Having acquired ten ISBN numbers for the price of two, I now have eight to find
books to attach them to.
something sad about self-publishing but my two regular books were a burden to
the small presses that got them out.
best from Max
Quoting Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hey, Max, I truly love this part:
>
> May as well roll out of bed
> submit to some doggy toe-licking
>
> and swop pyjamas for
> day-clothes and boots.
>
> At my feet two dogs sprawl
> supervising my moves.
>
> Can I reach my bootlaces still?
> Can I still tie a firm knot?
>
> *
>
> My picture almost. Due to the weather here, I throw on shorts and thongs
> (flip-flops to you people OS, not girly underwear), and my little ones
> don't like toes until I get out of the shower - first thing they run
> backwards and forwards to the front door, encouraging me to get a move on.
>
> It's a relaxed poem. Max, at a relaxed pace. There is some excess baggage
> there, but I feel that you are building up a collection of these domestic
> and doggy poems and that the time to edit them will be when they are
> collected together.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 23 November 2011 04:23, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Max, not at all, just some momentary curiosity on my part! Stay tuned :)
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Sheila, you're welcome!
> > >
> > > follow your intuition and post - whether to the list or to me
> > back-channel.
> > >
> > > I know I have a tendency to plod along a time line that's inherently
> > > undramatic.
> > >
> > > Max
> > >
> > > Quoting Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>:
> > >
> > > > Max, I am enjoying this piece very much. For some reason, I am tempted
> > to
> > > > wonder what would happen if the stanzas were placed in a different
> > order.
> > > > Would you be amenable to such considerations? This is not to say that
> > > there
> > > > is anything wrong with the order as it is. I just like to see what
> > > happens
> > > > sometimes. Sheila
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
> > > >wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > First Thing
> > > > >
> > > > > Something's waking me -
> > > > > far too early
> > > > >
> > > > > judging by my joint-aches
> > > > > and the dark window.
> > > > >
> > > > > The dogs have begun to wrestle
> > > > > voicelessly so far
> > > > >
> > > > > but their tumbling
> > > > > makes highly audible thumping.
> > > > >
> > > > > Birds are at their tweeting -
> > > > > they can't have anything
> > > > >
> > > > > new to tell each other -
> > > > > earlier it was the park owl
> > > > >
> > > > > (Tawny Frogmouth, in truth)
> > > > > with its 'who whom? who whom?'
> > > > >
> > > > > possible answers being
> > > > > 'I catch small creatures.
> > > > >
> > > > > Don't you invade my beat.'
> > > > > Was Tawny in my dream?
> > > > >
> > > > > Whatever I was dreaming
> > > > > has already faded -
> > > > >
> > > > > why can't I have interesting
> > > > > dreams like other people?
> > > > >
> > > > > May as well roll out of bed
> > > > > submit to some doggy toe-licking
> > > > >
> > > > > and swop pyjamas for
> > > > > day-clothes and boots.
> > > > >
> > > > > At my feet two dogs sprawl
> > > > > supervising my moves.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can I reach my bootlaces still?
> > > > > Can I still tie a firm knot?
> > > > >
> > > > > The motor hum on the road
> > > > > is the newsagent's car
> > > > >
> > > > > as today's paper's tossed
> > > > > from window over roof
> > > > >
> > > > > dumped with a dull thump
> > > > > in the violets by my drive.
> > > > >
> > > > > Breakfast is in the offing.
> > > > > Muesli with banana and a cuppa -
> > > > >
> > > > > much later I'll have coffee.
> > > > > Testing the dogs' patience.
> > > > >
> > > > > Make a dash for their supplies.
> > > > > Labs never learn good manners
> > > > >
> > > > > or not in this house.
> > > > > Feed and be grateful.
> > > > >
> > > > > Such are the first things
> > > > > peace and gratitude
> > > > >
> > > > > while the paper says
> > > > > Syria Egypt Afghanistan.
> > > > >
> > > > > Who whom. Who whom.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Max Richards
> > > > >
> > > > >
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>
>
>
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