None injured, Pat, but they do do their own injuring, tearing of minor
branches and littering the driveway with half-eaten walnuts and
chestnuts. Rainbow was just, well, not curved.
Thanks, Doug, Andrew. Looks like version one gets the gong. The sound of
the branch arcing off was huge and unsettling. We didn't know where it was
coming from at first, just hoped it wasn't on our property.
Bill
On Wednesday, 13 January 2016, Patrick McManus <
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> what's a vertical formed rainbow-is this a waterfall or summat ??cheers P
> ps I hope that no cockatoos were injured in the making of this poem !
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> -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Burke
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> Nice one, Bill - juxtaposition of images.
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> On 13 January 2016 at 09:52, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> .
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> Nothing like that here, but you see it full, Bill…
>>
>> Doug
>> > On Jan 12, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>> > Cockatoos spread and screeched all down Doctor's Gully,
>> > a huge white gum bough snapped like a shot
>> > and thundered to earth, leaving
>> > remaining branches shaking with shock.
>> >
>> > And near dusk, a small
>> > perfectly formed vertical rainbow
>> > stood at attention
>> > behind the Sevoia Hotel.
>> >
>> > bw
>> > Hepburn Springs
>> > 12.1.16
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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>> 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.
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