Ah, stupid mistake. Sorry.
On 9 January 2014 14:59, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wow, Andrew, I hope your cousin wasn't infected by Burke's pla g ue. Yes I
> can imagine a squat item built of that chunky redgum. I will ask around
> locally more about the bridge.
>
> Bill
>
> On 09/01/2014, at 12:35 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
>
> > I have a cousin in Melbourne who has a small table made from timbers of
> the
> > original Burke's Bridge.It's a squat, sturdy item with a plague on the
> side
> > stating its origins. It exudes mysterious tales of past passages. I have
> no
> > idea how Patrick fits into family history, although there are copious
> > family histories about.
> >
> > Androo
> >
> >
> > On 9 January 2014 03:30, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Saw all Bill.
> >>
> >> I think 'not offering crossability' is what it's all about, &
> intriguing,
> >> indeed.
> >>
> >> I imagine you can extend this sequence should you wish to...
> >>
> >> Doug
> >> On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:03 AM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bill old lad I saw Kasper's email only when you replied to it - P
> >> fretting
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
> >>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> >>> Sent: 08 January 2014 12:29
> >>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>> Subject: Re: Bridges
> >>>
> >>> Pat, can you not see Kasper's email below? You responded to Kasper's
> >> comment
> >>> it looks like to me. I may be stuck but your frets are wobbling it
> seems.
> >>>
> >>> Funny you mention 'orchardist'. I remember as teacher this came up
> when
> >>> students came to read the word, probably in Chekhov's 'The Cherry
> >> Orchard'.
> >>> 16/17 year olds couldn't pronounce it. Had never seen the word in
> print.
> >>> They would say it like 'orchid' with no sense that that were
> >>> mis-pronouncing. I suppose all fruit they ever had came from a
> >> supermarket.
> >>> My great uncle Jim lived on an apple orchard, in a stilted wooden
> >> two-room
> >>> shack with a Coolgardie safe to keep his milk cool, at Harcourt near
> >>> Bendigo, a hundred miles or so north west of Melbourne.
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>>> On 8 Jan 2014, at 8:06 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >> [log in to unmask]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Kasper's email never arrived here!!
> >>>> Bill hope you are not stuck - orchardist sounds a nice job Cheers P
> >>>>
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >>>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> >>>> Sent: 08 January 2014 07:21
> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Subject: Re: Bridges
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks, Kasper. Final couplet (and indeed final section) is still
> >>>> a work in progress, appended yesterday when I realised the two
> >>>> particular bridges I was celebrating were not ones to put spring in
> >>>> step, they not offering crossability.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bill
> >>>>
> >>>>> On 8 Jan 2014, at 11:36 am, Kasper Salonen <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This is magnificent, the majesty of bridges at their best resonates
> >>>>> strongly in these four sections. The hint of myth in the Benezet
> >>>>> story rounds out the mysticism. Not only that, but the lyrical and
> >>>>> yet perfectly disinterested style makes up for the splash of water
> >>>>> that is the final line. I love it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> KS
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> Kasper Salonen, toiminnanjohtaja
> >>>>> Helsinki Poetry Connection
> >>>>> http://hkipoetryconnection.blogspot.com/
> >>>>> +358505554947
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> On 7 January 2014 23:05, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Bridges
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> i
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Walk a bridge to connect, to pass
> >>>>>> over a gulf. To be on a bridge is to be
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> neither in one place or another. Rarely destination, bridges embody
> >>>>>> journey.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ii
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Avignon's stone bridge stops mid-Rhone tantalising with just four
> >>>>>> extant arches
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> of its once majestic twenty two.
> >>>>>> Even computer imaging and years
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> of research can't line up remnant piles.
> >>>>>> Must have been zig-zags
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> for added strength, perhaps, in floods.
> >>>>>> Benezet the shepherd it's said,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 850 years ago, with Divine push, hefted and hurled a huge rock in
> >>>>>> the river
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> which became stone one of Pont
> >>>>>> d'Avignon. Benezet's journey ended
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> with his interment within the bridge before its completion.
> >>>>>> Disinterment
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> nearly 500 years later,
> >>>>>> scored him patron sainthood.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> iii
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Just north of Melbourne, two parallel bridges span Arthurs Creek.
> >>>>>> Only one takes traffic.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Burke's duplicated concrete and bitumen bridge towards Nutfield,
> >>>>>> flat and functional
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> but adjacent, original Burke's Bridge, a timbertrestle construction,
> >>>>>> now spattered
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> with leaves and gum bark peelings, blocked at either end with
> >>>>>> boulders, remains
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> the real enchanter. Patrick Burke, orchardist and nurseryman settled
> >>>>>> on 20 acres in 1864.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> None of which explains why supporting posts either side of the creek
> >>>>>> are not parallel.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> iv
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Alighting from a bridge makes you feel lighter.
> >>>>>> Puts a little spring in your step or your tyres.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You've left somewhere behind. Crossed.
> >>>>>> You're somewhere else. What now?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> But it takes now uncrossable bridges to remind us how well stuck we
> >>>>>> might be.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> bw
> >>>>>> 8.1.14
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> 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)
> >>
> >> Swept snow, Li Po,
> >> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> >> to the road that hies to office
> >> away from home.
> >>
> >> Lorine Niedecker
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Undercover of Lightness'
> > http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> > 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
> >
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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