Yeah, I like that, BIll….
Doug
On 2012-11-07, at 8:34 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> How's this, Doug? There was no room at the in.
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> They bothered me too, those ins.
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> On the roof,
> sun-buckled skylight
> permits a rain puddle;
> a crow makes his nest.
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> Cheers,
> Bill
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> On 08/11/2012, at 3:48 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Well, middle cubicle sounds right for indoor plumbing & almost every public washroom Ive ever been in....
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>> Speaking of that last word there, is there any way to not have two 'in's in the final stanza, Bill? I want the image, for sure...
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>> It is, of course, laughing at that unintroduced fellow....
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>> Doug
>> On 2012-11-07, at 4:55 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Again, you are prescient, Patrick. I toyed with entitling my snap 'Intruder in the dunny' but opted for brevity.
>>>
>>> Bill
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>>> On 07/11/2012, at 7:30 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> I think they are called dunnies out there (how were they so named me wonders
>>>> ruminating )
>>>> P ruminating
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>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>>> Behalf Of Max Richards
>>>> Sent: 07 November 2012 06:00
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: Intruder snap
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering whether Bill lives in an old country property with lavatory
>>>> cubicles all in a row..
>>>>
>>>> On 07/11/2012, at 1:28 PM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sprung! You're right of course, Patrick. Yhanks for pointing out what
>>>> should have been so obviois to me. What was I doing back in a school toilet
>>>> after having retired from teaching after twenty eight years only lasy year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/11/2012, at 11:20 AM, Patrick McManus
>>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill not that nevermore raven??
>>>>>> Cheers Patrick
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>>>>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>>>>> Sent: 06 November 2012 20:47
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Subject: Intruder snap
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please note, Doug, complete excision of the perpendicular pronoun, below!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Intruder
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Purposeful, fussy even,
>>>>>> sounds of scraping,
>>>>>> starting and stopping.
>>>>>> From without, not in here
>>>>>> in the middle cubicle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Aloneness interrupted.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There it goes again;
>>>>>> shuffle, scratch,
>>>>>> knock. What?
>>>>>> Outside but close.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Business finished,
>>>>>> twirl, click, out.
>>>>>> Eyes dart. Skitter.
>>>>>> Look up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A shadow looms,
>>>>>> blots the sun.
>>>>>> In silhouette,
>>>>>> dark feet adjust,
>>>>>> re-admit light.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Liquid swirl.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On the roof,
>>>>>> in a rain puddle
>>>>>> in the warped skylight,
>>>>>> a crow makes his nest.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bill Wootton
>>>>>> 7 November 12
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> Wednesdays'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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>> Transforming once reasonable human beings into gullible idiots is one of the biggest businesses we have.
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Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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