I wondered about Goldmans -
so is there fossicking still to do, Bill?
out with your metal detector?
or panning the creeks?
Everywhere I’ve lived I’ve sensed poetry lurking in the place names and signs.
Near us is Rough Road, which has in waiting a folding sign: Snow Closure.
Max in Seattle
(homesick for Punt Road, Pound Bend et al.
On Nov 12, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Named after miners apparently, Pat. Gold.
>
> Bill
>
>
>> On 12 Nov 2014, at 6:40 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> Bill Red Shirt Gully Road -great name for a road cheers P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 11 November 2014 21:06
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: A sign
>>
>> A sign
>>
>> It only takes about two ks
>> of winding dirt and stones
>> for Belfields Road
>> to lose its plural.
>>
>> By the time you hit
>> Red Shirt Gully Road
>> if you set out from
>> Goldmans Road that is,
>>
>> you stare at a sign
>> denoting Belfield Road.
>> Maybe down that end, only
>> one paddock looks any good.
>>
>> bw
>>
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