Thanks for r comments and yr reading(s).
Andrew
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On 31 December 2015 at 03:12, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wow, who knows? I hear of someone here who talks back to them.
>
> Meanwhile, Andrew, you get the listening down.
>
> Doug
> > On Dec 30, 2015, at 8:36 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I understand there are many Magpie dialects.
> >
> > Regional?
> >
> > The poet ADHope in his Tasmanian boyhood
> >
> > heard them say one word over and over,
> >
> > then on the mainland another.
> >
> > One was Ethiopia Ethiopia
> >
> > the other was Abyssinia Abyssinia
> >
> > but which was which I forget.
> >
> > Max
> >
> > I shall send later the NZ poet Denis Glover’s
> > transcription of the magpies he heard.
> >
> >
> > On Dec 30, 2015, at 4:26, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Andrew you don't speak (Oz) magpie ?
> >> it says
> >> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> >> at the bottom of your snap!!
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Burke
> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 4:21 AM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Those Birds in the Big Fat Tree (Snap)
> >>
> >> In the National Park of Mundaring
> >>
> >> magpies’ call-and-response
> >>
> >> calls me outside to watch as
> >>
> >> they forage for red berries
> >>
> >> and swing on light branches
> >>
> >> only to fly straight-arrow-like
> >>
> >> to a fat limb for security, one
> >>
> >> continually crying from
> >>
> >> an open beak as others
> >>
> >> reply with lyrical phrases,
> >>
> >> a breakfast concert.
> >>
> >> I watch and hear, try to
> >>
> >> dismiss a need for names and
> >>
> >> words of evaluation or distinction.
> >>
> >> I search for the delight of a child,
> >>
> >> no questions, simply
> >>
> >> experience, enjoyment,
> >>
> >> as they talk in their tongue,
> >>
> >> ignoring me.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew
> >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >> Books available through Walleah Press
> >> http://walleahpress.com.au
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> 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?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
--
Andrew
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