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
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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