Yes, the poetry of signs, MX: I like the way you entertained them here, Bill...
Doug
On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I wondered about Goldmans -
>
> so is there fossicking still to do, Bill?
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> out with your metal detector?
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> or panning the creeks?
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> 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.
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> Max in Seattle
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> (homesick for Punt Road, Pound Bend et al.
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> On Nov 12, 2014, at 7:26 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Named after miners apparently, Pat. Gold.
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>> 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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