Thanks, Doug.
Bill
On 09/11/2012, at 8:55 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> They bothered me too, those ins.
>>
>> On the roof,
>> sun-buckled skylight
>> permits a rain puddle;
>> a crow makes his nest.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Bill
>>
>> On 08/11/2012, at 3:48 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, middle cubicle sounds right for indoor plumbing & almost every public washroom Ive ever been in....
>>>
>>> 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...
>>>
>>> It is, of course, laughing at that unintroduced fellow....
>>>
>>> Doug
>>> On 2012-11-07, at 4:55 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Again, you are prescient, Patrick. I toyed with entitling my snap 'Intruder in the dunny' but opted for brevity.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On 07/11/2012, at 7:30 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think they are called dunnies out there (how were they so named me wonders
>>>>> ruminating )
>>>>> P ruminating
>>>>>
>>>>> -----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
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
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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
>>>
>>> Transforming once reasonable human beings into gullible idiots is one of the biggest businesses we have.
>>>
>>> Charles Simic
>
> 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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