Will think on it, Doug but at the moment room elephants equate with larger scale issues unfaced. Max, the alpha order doesn't apply literally for where Wootton would slot in among the Whartons. That's just a convenient high shelf possy. Otherwise I'd have to dip lower betwen Woolf's Night and Day and Woulk's The Caine Mutiny. Perhaps the first title is a more appropriate housing position for a journal.
Bill
> On 10 Apr 2014, at 1:30 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I like the concept of that final stanza, Bill, but 'room elephants' just sounded awkward in my ears...
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> Doug
>> On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:57 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Max. Yes an elephant gazing sequel may follow.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 09/04/2014, at 11:01 AM, Max Richards wrote:
>>>
>>> I like the alphabetical order, Bill:
>>> Ch then Cu,
>>> and from Wh to Wo…
>>>
>>> I once posted a tiny verse lament and not
>>> being in the bookshops between
>>> Raworth and Rilke.
>>>
>>> Presumably this year's journal is the latest
>>> of a great many - all kept and in order?
>>>
>>> These lines of yours achieve a certain tone and form.
>>> Maybe a sequel is called for - once some elephant
>>> gets tended to…
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>> On 09/04/2014, at 7:20 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Between The Children
>>>> and The Custom of the Country
>>>> lies the journal of my days.
>>>>
>>>> Plucked before breakfast
>>>> from its enclosing Whartons,
>>>> pages bent back ready for pen.
>>>>
>>>> Pen hovers rarely, inclining
>>>> more to jump to ready blather,
>>>> or opens with dreams
>>>>
>>>> recalled, dismembered,
>>>> assembled, disappearing
>>>> as they empty on to page.
>>>>
>>>> Mornings recount yesterdays,
>>>> rarely anticipations. More
>>>> often lists, summings up.
>>>>
>>>> What questions avoided,
>>>> what room elephants
>>>> unexamined.
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>> 9.4.14
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