On Thursday, September 17, 2015, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> dunny - a sort of water-trough…
>
> Touché, Viper.
Bill
Snake
>
>
> A snake came to my water-trough
> On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
> To drink there.
> In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree
> I came down the steps with my pitcher
> And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before
> me.
>
> He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom
> And trailed his yellow-brown slackness soft-bellied down, over the edge of
> the stone trough
> And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,
> i o And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,
> He sipped with his straight mouth,
> Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body,
> Silently.
>
> Someone was before me at my water-trough,
> And I, like a second comer, waiting.
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2015, at 0:38, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Not much poetry when a python parks in your dunny, Max.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-15/snakes-in-loos-search-for-water-in-townsville-houses/6778608?WT.mc_id=newsmail
> >>
> >> Begin forwarded message:
> >>
> >>> From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> <javascript:;>>
> >>> Subject: Fwd: Snakes in toilets of Townsville houses as search for
> water
> >> gets creative in north Queensland - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting
> >> Corporation)
> >>> Date: September 15, 2015 at 19:26:07 PDT
> >>> To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I know this is not poetic
> >>> but
> >>> my wife Marilyn sends me this and I must share it.
> >>>
> >>> Luckily Townsville is far far away.
> >>>
> >>> Max in Seattle (for now - end of year: Melbourne again)
> >>>
> >>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>>
> >>>> From: Marilyn A Black <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> <javascript:;>>
> >>>> Subject: Snakes in toilets of Townsville houses as search for water
> >> gets creative in north Queensland - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting
> >> Corporation)
> >>>> Date: September 15, 2015 at 19:16:24 PDT
> >>>> To: "Max Richards. I.C.E" <[log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> <javascript:;>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Yuch!
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-15/snakes-in-loos-search-for-water-in-townsville-houses/6778608?WT.mc_id=newsmail
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
>
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