They'd be pretty shaky seeds in Christchurch these days wouldn't they,
Andrew. How's the quake situation now? Like your connection with
music/familiarity/tramping. Whoops, better watch it, In NZ, tramping means
something more specific doesn't it, more hiking I think, off-road.
Bill
On Thursday, 18 February 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Miles and Coltrane playing in Stockholm
> enlivens a wet Christchurch afternoon
> and I come to the realization I knew
> what Trane was going to play next.
> It was at this point that I knew
> two days of prowling the city
> had taught me the pattern of streets,
> the beat of our feet connecting
> to the sight of the eyes and
> the frontal lobes. All this
> connectivity part of writing -
> but as Ezra Pound told WS Merwin,
> *Read seeds, not twigs.*
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