and there's a famous mcmanus Fly poem somewhere !! gosh where ?? aha aged
memory kicked in it's in Ready Mixed Aggregate available Amazon etc bloody
cheaply for discerning readers :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Barbour
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 4:19 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Ballad of the blowfly
And there’s the terrific little part of Phylis Webb’s Naked Poems, in which
lovers note the flies making love on the ceiling…
Doug
> On Feb 17, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> *Abstract: *The fly has its own elegance robed in wings so fine...
>
> is all I can find, Andrew. My fly is more tawdry. I tried to fit in
> 'compound eyes' but the stress was wrong.
>
> Ambrose Bierce is big on the fly, 'a monster of the air, owing allegiance
> to Beezlebub' etc but I can't find the full entry online. It is from the
> Enlarged Devil's Dictionary and also features on the back cover of Richard
> Thompson's first solo album, Henry the Human Fly.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml',[log in to unmask]);>> wrote:
>
>> Ah, there's a great tradition of fly poems! I've written one called
>> *Elegance*, which Les M put in QUADRANT ... I'm on the road or I'd post
>> it
>> here.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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>> On 18 February 2016 at 09:50, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks, Max, Pat, Doug. Re-reading I see I have created a limerick more
>>> than a ballad.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh you Aussie bush-balladeers!
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 2:21 AM, Patrick McManus <
>>>> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> haha P am gloomy this morning cheered me -mooting
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton Sent: Tuesday, February
>>>> 16, 2016 8:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> Subject:
>>>> Ballad of the blowfly
>>>>> From dungheap to desktop he flew,
>>>>> well known to him the route.
>>>>> But then he paused, his eyes adrift;
>>>>> which way he faced was moot.
>>>>>
>>>>> bw
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
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>>>> 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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>>
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.
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