Max it’s transcoinental not in…
The 2nd a true Not quite snapshot but_ little video of almost return…
Doug
On Sep 17, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Max hope you won't be homeless in that USA place -and all those peilvicfloor
> exercises -cheers P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 17 September 2014 18:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Seattle Bulletins 1 and 2
>
> Seattle Bulletin 1
>
> Incontinent Traveller, 77
>
> Pelvic floor muscle exercises,
> I will not forget you, flying
> Air New Zealand, United Airlines;
>
> transit lounges. I may look
> to be lounging - exercising,
> actually! Otherwise IT may
>
> lose tone, with damp outcome.
> Seattle, good to see you.
> Sorrento Hotel, you're too
>
> posh for me. Let me sink back
> out of sight, while my wife
> finds us a place to lease,
>
> close to Seattle U, please,
> where she can study, I can
> relax, quietly maintain tone
>
> on that pelvic floor muscle
> which I bring you, Seattle,
> clenched till it's almost normal.
>
>
> Seattle Bulletin 2
>
> Waiting for ten to strike
>
> when bookshops open.
> This my Seattle favourite
> on a previous visit -
>
> the Elliott Bay Book Company -
> pure delight in Pioneer Square
> in several rooms oddly ranged.
>
> Sad to return - Pioneer Square
> no longer - moved to Capitol Hill
> where the bookish folk are -
>
> near the Jimi Hendrix statue,
> behind on Tenth Avenue.
> Step up and in - books to the horizon
>
> and to the cafe. Elliott Bay,
> I forgive your move, adore
> your prices, so unAustralian.
>
> Wandering Pioneer Square
> next day I admire the display:
> Bertha the big tunneller
>
> is below. Soon the elevated
> freeway goes down there,
> restoring the Square to the Bay.=
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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