I'll do my best.
I assure you I am in GB, just writing about a eucalyptus, thanks to the
wonders of email.
There's a eucalyptus in Coleridge's garden at Nether Stowey and some years
ago the then custodian of the cottage wld encourage the belief that it was
the lime tree as in "this lime tree bower my prison"
Passed the time
L
On 30 December 2013 17:09, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Do try!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 30 December 2013 16:34
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem 2 days early - Richard Kessling & Lawrence Upton
>
> Thank you, dear boy;much appreciated. I'll send your comments on to my
> colleague, who is no longer on the list. I shall read the rest of this
> week's poems on Thursday, if I last that long!
>
> L
>
>
>
> On 30 December 2013 16:28, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I especially like 'sidles,' L (& R).
> >
> > & the 'reporting' of all...
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > On Dec 30, 2013, at 7:01 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > It has been flame hot in far too many days.
> > >
> > >
> > > I watch out from the porch while harsh sun sidles
> > >
> > > towards dusk. The tree, stirred by false promises
> > >
> > > of whirligig clouds, or expectation of fire,
> > >
> > > spits seeds reporting on the roofing iron.
> > >
> > >
> > > It will not rain to-day, tomorrow nor days after.
> > >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
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> > 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)
> >
> > Swept snow, Li Po,
> > by dawn's 40-watt moon
> > to the road that hies to office
> > away from home.
> >
> > Lorine Niedecker
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