And there we are, the piece, the response, & I am happy with them both...
Doug
On 2013-09-24, at 9:41 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I see it as a four frame comic strip - with a sense of sadness overleaf.
> Thanks for that. Andrew
>
>
> On 25 September 2013 13:17, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> The Fault-Line
>>
>> There's a man in the park
>> with metal objects in his hands,
>>
>> addressing the trees and us:
>> Listen, there's a fault-line up there
>>
>> (gesturing to the clouds) - it runs
>> from here to San Francisco.
>>
>> It's been there thousands of years.
>> I'll give you the email you need -
>>
>> (something) hotmail dot com.
>> Any day it's going to - but the dog
>>
>> and I have walked out of earshot.
>> I glance back - he's on his knees.
>>
>> Maybe that other guy is paying
>> attention - or with him, even.
>>
>> The prophet strikes me as cut-off,
>> liable to erupt - apocalyptic.
>>
>> Any day the fault-line may open
>> over him, swallow him up. Us up?
>>
>> He warned us, he told us so.
>> And I won't have emailed
>>
>> for the lowdown hotmail info.
>> The old trees near him once shed
>>
>> huge limbs, the lesions unhealed
>> gape alert like giant ears.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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