Well Patrick in this instance the balloon was figurative but pleasure
balloons for hire sometimes appear around the city parks
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On 15 January 2014 11:21, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Balloons in Leicester? Left over Zeppelins? Waking throats has a ring!!
> P you are actually in Leicester?
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 15 January 2014 10:37
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> Subject: One-finger Exercise Snap
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> Haven't done one of these for a while, so here's a little exercise:
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> * Primitive*
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> All night the rain has argued with the wind.
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> A balloon turns at its mooring, as if adrift
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> In the hushed pillowed weather of my head.
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> Our foxes hide as the dawn's throats wake.
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> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
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> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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David Joseph Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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