See Doug comments, L, re Ivanhoe but I take your point: a WS reed armed with bull not to be tampered with.
B
On 14/03/2013, at 2:55 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> You've obviously never met a dryad with a Walter Scott obsession. I'd
> say you're lucky. Some of them get very excited. Multiply excited
>
> L
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent:Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:48:47 -0600
> Subject:Re: Bulrushes snap
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> I dont have a problem with dryads, Bill, but dont get that Ivanhoe
> reference at all...
>
> As Max said, good visuals...
>
> Doug
> On 2013-03-13, at 4:42 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> No Raynes Park, P but dryads or some such have delivered a breeze
> here tonight which breaks the spell of 10 days in a row of minimum
> temps over 20, 10 max over 30 in Cottles Bridge.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On 13/03/2013, at 6:40 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>>> Bill those dryads give a sparkle for me thanks
>>> I bet that there is no Raynes Park in Ozland!!
>>> P in cold
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
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>>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
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>>> Subject: Bulrushes snap
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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.
>>>
>>> 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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