Required with leaky bark construction, Pat.
> On 1 Oct 2014, at 4:38 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Cheers Bill all that bailing !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 30 September 2014 12:46
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Timing
>
> The kids all carried large open shells.
> His mother died the day before.
> The Papuan bark boat leaked.
>
> Today his daughter had a baby girl.
> He stood up in the front of the boat.
> Yesterday he told his mother the girl was born.
>
> The kids bailed like buggery with the shells.
> He told his mother they'd named her Ada.
> He shafted the fish and hauled it in.
>
> He told his mother Ada was named after her.
> Each fresh fish roiled on the boat bottom.
> This morning they named the girl Indiana.
>
> The boat lay heavier in the water.
> The kids bailed harder.
> They turned for shore.
>
> bw
> 21.9.14
>
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