What can I add but fantastic! Loved every syllable.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Jill, I like particularly the shag which shows its wingspan / to the wind.
> I see this.
>
> Bill
>
> On 07/02/2013, at 11:51 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Doug. Thanks Lawrence. It was a good place to write a few things
> - one piece far too long, and maybe not good enough, to post - but some
> smaller snaps may appear over next few weeks, unless I get immediately
> snapetty in amongst the semester start, which is upon me.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> > On 07/02/2013, at 2:23 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >
> >> Yes: wow, how that NZ shore affects the poetic response, Jill. We're
> there, perceiving with you...
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On 2013-02-06, at 3:15 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Now that is good
> >>>
> >>> L
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> >>> To:
> >>> Cc:
> >>> Sent:Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:48:36 +1030
> >>> Subject:snap: grey and warm
> >>>
> >>> Grey and Warm
> >>>
> >>> walking towards the white
> >>>
> >>> late morning
> >>>
> >>> open a curtain
> >>>
> >>> there is another curtain
> >>>
> >>> this ancient weather
> >>>
> >>> it is today’s
> >>>
> >>> the fog speaks
> >>>
> >>> with heron noise
> >>>
> >>> shadows gathering
> >>>
> >>> sand worms or shells
> >>>
> >>> the worms scribe
> >>>
> >>> through granules
> >>>
> >>> three ducks fly
> >>>
> >>> like three ducks flying
> >>>
> >>> up a blue wall
> >>>
> >>> then they turn back
> >>>
> >>> into the white
> >>>
> >>> twenty horses file past
> >>>
> >>> shrouded opposite here
> >>>
> >>> away from the lagoon
> >>>
> >>> mouth turn a corner
> >>>
> >>> of a dune
> >>>
> >>> who are these misty riders
> >>>
> >>> making up a school
> >>>
> >>> the godwits gather
> >>>
> >>> on a sandbar
> >>>
> >>> the oystercatchers
> >>>
> >>> come closer
> >>>
> >>> it is all about feeding
> >>>
> >>> and sifting
> >>>
> >>> surviving with
> >>>
> >>> water and air
> >>>
> >>> a four wheel drive
> >>>
> >>> shunting a dinghy
> >>>
> >>> from mooring to somewhere
> >>>
> >>> a shag shows its wingspan
> >>>
> >>> to the wind
> >>>
> >>> language and sign
> >>>
> >>> indistinguishable
> >>>
> >>> not decipherable
> >>>
> >>> apart from the usual
> >>>
> >>> guesswork
> >>>
> >>> what do gulls utter
> >>>
> >>> may or may not be
> >>>
> >>> obvious
> >>>
> >>> the sea fog does not
> >>>
> >>> lift all day
> >>>
> >>> which is grey and warm
> >>>
> >>> and continuous
> >>
> >> Douglas Barbour
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>
> >> Latest books:
> >> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> >> Recording Dates
> >> (Rubicon Press)
> >>
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> >> And still property is theft.
> >>
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> >
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