DHL, I presume?
And i what sunshiny place?
Doug
On Sep 16, 2015, at 10:16 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> dunny - a sort of water-trough…
>
> 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]> wrote:
>
>> Not much poetry when a python parks in your dunny, Max.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>> 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:;>>
>>>> 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:;>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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:;>>
>>>>> 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:;>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yuch!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-15/snakes-in-loos-search-for-water-in-townsville-houses/6778608?WT.mc_id=newsmail
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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