Good poem, Bill. Thanks, I enjoyed it, even if I'm a Dockers supporter.
(Always go for the underdog.)
Andrew
On 22 August 2012 14:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just one thing, Hal, an extra 't' required in my surname, so Wootton.
> Otherwise, perfect. Thank you.
>
> Bill
>
> On 22/08/2012, at 9:19 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > It's up, Bill (w/ correction). Let me know if anything's amiss.
> > And thanks.
> >
> >
> > Mastering this universe one Higgs boson at a time.
> >
> > Hal
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
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> email
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> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > Remains To Be Seen <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>*,
> Remains
> > To Be Seen (Vol. II) <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,**
> Remains
> > To Be Seen (Vol. III) <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>,
> *Sonnets
> > from the Basque & Other Poems <
> https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>
> > *, *Mainly Black <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Obras
> > Públicas <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **The
> Perfection
> > of Mozart's Third Eye and Other
> > Sonnets<
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> >
> > ; **Organ Harvest with Entrance of
> > Clones<
> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> >
> > ; **Tango Bouquet <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>;
> **Theory
> > of Harmony<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
> >
> > ; **Rapsodie espagnole<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
> >
> > ; **Guide to the Tokyo
> > Subway<
> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> >
> > ; **The Sonnet Project<
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
> >
> > ; **G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>;
> **Winter
> > Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>;
> > **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>
> > ; **The Dance of the Red Swan <
> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html>
> > ; **Transparencies & Projections<
> http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>
> > *
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Song Cycle of The Magpies
> >>
> >> - after The Wonguri-Mandjagai people from north-eastern Arnhem Land
> >>
> >> They are milling about at the G, on benches, in bars, along the back of
> >> the Great Southern
> >> stand.
> >> Milling about in wavering lines, there in the shade of the Great
> >> Overhanging Roof.
> >> Standing and waiting for the bounce of the ball, in black and white
> >> verticals, like
> >> loosened upright piano keys:
> >> In the shade of the overarching roof, they are standing, untuned.
> >> People of the Carringbush, gathered there like rippling accordion
> >> keyboards, like
> >> vast splayed snakes.
> >> In here, behind the Goals, in this Place, in the shadow of the Great
> >> Overhanging Roof.
> >> Now sitting in rows, those Carringbush people, Piano people, waiting for
> >> the performance to begin.
> >> Living on hot chips, sitting there with grease-grappled fingers,
> >> Sitting in there waiting, those People of the Magpie Clan...
> >> Sitting there like unplayed pianos, at that Place of the Leatherball...
> >> and of the pig's
> >> bladder entrails.
> >> Sitting, waiting there in the Place of the Leatherball...
> >> In that Place of the Centre Square, and at the Place of the Leatherball,
> >> There at that Leather Stadium, they await... The Siren.
> >>
> >> Bill Wootton
> >> 22 August 12
> >>
> >
> >
>
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Andrew
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