yes, but I hope there will be a reunion!
[saw my first white butterfly of spring here last week,
wondering now how long a season they have - ? -
or is that moth not the Seattle butterfly?]
On Apr 23, 2015, at 0:21, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A brooding snap-shot here, Andrew. Absence so carefully captured. The short lines work well to accentuate the feeling of loss. Can't say why exactly but I like particularly the cabbage moth too.
>
> Bill
>
> On 23/04/2015, at 1:38 PM, Andrew Burke wrote:
>
>> Since you've been
>>
>> gone I've been
>>
>> on retreat, so
>>
>> (not) to speak.
>>
>> Now a gunshot
>>
>> echoes through the
>>
>> still morning air.
>>
>> Corellas scatter.
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>> My Mingus morning
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>> bothers no-one. It
>>
>> heightens the silence that
>>
>> wraps itself around these
>>
>> empty rooms. Piano
>>
>> trills run down
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>> my breakfast menu
>>
>> as our dog sits
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>> where your feet
>>
>> should be. You
>>
>> left the camera
>>
>> behind - I won't take
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>> photos of things
>>
>> you know so well.
>>
>> The flautist plays
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>> tambourines
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>> with his feet to
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>> embellish the beat,
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>> as you wear
>>
>> that chunky neck-
>>
>> lace to lift
>>
>> your heart. A
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>> white cabbage moth
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>> flies to the window
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>> and calls us out.
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>> I open the gate
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>> and look down
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>> the road.
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -
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>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>
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