Thanks Doug. Artefacts yes, for travel in steamer and the like, pre-plane
travel? Perhaps I couldhave distinguished trunks from suitcases but by
rushing to rolley-cases, I cut out the middleman.
Bill
On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 12:54 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> It is that past, a nostalgia trip to earlier times, Bill. So that final
> couplet nails it. On the other hand, I, or some of my family, must’ve had
> one or 2 back when I was very young, but here in Canada, we got into
> suitcases early in my lifetime.
>
> I see them as artifacts in TV shows or movie, rather than as part of my
> own memories, which makes your remembering all the more intriguing here….
>
> Doug
> > On May 31, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Curl Curl is a district of Sydney. I bummed around a little when I was
> > young!
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 31 May 2017 at 20:55, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Sheila, Patrick. I am a wheely case man nowadays. Sigh.
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Wed, 31 May 2017 at 10:52 pm, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This banter too obscure for me, Andrew. Curl Curl?
> >>>
> >>> Bill
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, 31 May 2017 at 8:54 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I saw a number of trunks when I was a scavenger on Curl Curl tip when
> I
> >>>> was
> >>>> 19, so this calls up memories a plenty, Bill!
> >>>>
> >>>> Andrew
> >>>>
> >>>> On 31 May 2017 at 14:28, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Bill, this piece hefts hefts even perception retrospectively. The
> >>>> musings
> >>>>> on the shapes lull us into a natural reflective trance.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Very well done!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On May 30, 2017 11:21 PM, "Patrick McManus" <
> >>>> [log in to unmask]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Bill Trunks heave with history,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> line I like it
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 31/05/2017 02:57, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Pack a trunk
> >>>>>> you're really going somewhere
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> and not coming back any time soon,
> >>>>>> shifting house, shifting nation even
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> or of course, you could be going nowhere,
> >>>>>> stashing no-longer-necessaries in the attic.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No rolly trolleys, trunks co-existed
> >>>>>> with flat-bottomed metal rubbish bins,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> both capable of absorbing
> >>>>>> the roughest of treatments
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> requiring finger clutching
> >>>>>> and sustained arm hefting.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> With their metal handles and flick latches,
> >>>>>> trunks were chunky rectangular cuboids,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> lockable, portable, sit-on-able,
> >>>>>> easily stackable and re-usable.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Trunks could be labelled, ticketed,
> >>>>>> even compartmentalised.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Store suits, shirts, socks, shoes,
> >>>>>> swimming trunks, boxing trunks,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> all manner of trousers,
> >>>>>> truncated or not.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Trunks heave with history,
> >>>>>> hope and possibilities of movement.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> bw
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Andrew
> >>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >>>> Books available through Walleah Press
> >>>> http://walleahpress.com.au
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > Books available through Walleah Press
> > http://walleahpress.com.au
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
> I go down to the Twilight Arcade
> and watch the Martian invaders,
> already appalled by our language,
> pointing at what they want.
>
> Bill Manhire
>
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