Great, Andrew. I just now saw your message. Great piece!!!
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 10:12 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thank you, Bill and Sheila. I thank all who contributed responses earlier -
> you all helped me write the rewrite.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 6 March 2015 at 15:40, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I like this so much, Andrew. There is a feeling of closeness that
> pervades
> > the poem. "disturbs in bed" is lovely.
> >
> > Thank you. Sheila
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Community
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *I may want to lie still*
> > >
> > > *And think about my choices.*
> > >
> > > - *Rae Armantrout*
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I lie in late
> > >
> > > beside my wife
> > >
> > > listening to the first birds
> > >
> > > of the third day of autumn.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > When their song pauses
> > >
> > > I slowly swing my legs over
> > >
> > > bed's edge and contemplate
> > >
> > > our day while the blood
> > >
> > > settles in my flow pattern.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bird song begins again.
> > >
> > > I whistle back, hoarsely,
> > >
> > > and my wife disturbs in bed.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ii
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Which t-shirt will I wear?
> > >
> > > Shakespeare quote,
> > >
> > > Beckett portrait, or
> > >
> > > the black one, the one I call
> > >
> > > *Night Life in Corowa*?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > iii
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It's Tuesday. Today
> > >
> > > the Country Women's Association
> > >
> > > meets in the corrugated red hall
> > >
> > > opposite the IGA Supermarket.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > My wife returns with
> > >
> > > Pelargonian plants to plant
> > >
> > > and a book of craft patterns,
> > >
> > > aptly called *Closely*KNIT.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew
> > > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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>
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