Very enjoyable, Max. Ducks have returned to our swamp just recently - right
after the water returned! Ibis too, and coots. No swans yet, but maybe
later.
I have a book launch on Sunday, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm doing a
double act with Lucy Dougan and her book On The Circumvesuviana (Picaro
Press http://www.picaropress.com )
My book is a 'new and selected' titled 'Undercover of Lightness' (Walleah
Press,
On 16 May 2012 13:17, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> aged very little, I used to call them 'quackers' in the park. I'm very
> impressed that australian ducks have taken to talking about nuclear physics
> - 'quark' - or is it Finnegans Wake they're debating?
>
> On 16 May 2012 01:38, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Ruffey and Pukekura
> >
> > Quark wark wark wark wark -
> > so speak the lake ducks
> > on my morning walk.
> >
> > Well met! They take
> > me way way back:
> > mother and son walk
> >
> > in that Taranaki park;
> > its swans non-speaking
> > and ducks much-quacking,
> >
> > the first I heard speak
> > and bring me awake
> > to the life aquatic
> >
> > and life on wings:
> > ducks skittered
> > then flew erratic
> >
> > to their farther haven,
> > returning for crumbs
> > scattered by children.
> >
> > Notice the pecking
> > order, the bold
> > and the timid,
> >
> > the webbed feet at work,
> > dipping beaks that take
> > in crumbs as they sink
> >
> > in translucent water.
> > Today's humans
> > are mother and daughter
> >
> > sharing laughter
> > and an old man weighing
> > there then and here after.
> >
> >
> > Max Richards
> >
>
>
>
> --
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