Thanks, Max. I'm counting them as reed nymphs, fanciful or not.
What about Montmorency too, a little piece of France in the northern suburbs. Betting Koo Wee Rup lacks a northern hemishere double however.
Cheers,
Bill
On 13/03/2013, at 2:41 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> tree-nymphs in Ivanhoe Melbourne!
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> or are they some sort of bird?
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> I enjoy the play of visual (and other senses) and fanciful figurative here.
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> [When I came to Melbourne in 1967 I couldn't believe anyone would name a suburb after a Scott novel.
> But then I'd just left Edinburgh via the Waverley Station.
> And how many other place names were displaced from Europe!
> Sorrento, Chelsea, Baywater (without bay or water), Mentone, Heidelberg…]
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> Max of St Kilda Road
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> On 13/03/2013, at 7:37 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> Abutting mowed cricket zones at Chelsworth
>> below The Boulevard rests a wetland ovalsworth
>> of Moses minders. Busbies on stalks, turds on sticks,
>> Grand-father clock gongs. Dryads dart between reeds,
>> landing on their spikelets, causing them to dip.
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>> Dry to tongue, raspy-razored, even when wet.
>> Plucked bulrushes should sound a swampy bass-thunk
>> but sway instead, nodding noiselessly in Ivanhoe breeze.
>> Gather up these silent skittles into your arms.
>> There is no bull about bulrushes, even when provoked.
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