Thanks, Jill. The first part I wrote a while ago and is largely intact. The
second I fiddked with, deleting and adding and mucking round with all thise
d words. Your suggestion to dump the ds I see makes a lot of sense. They do
seem to arrive from a different dimension, foxes.
Bill
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 3:21 pm, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Also, Bill, meant to mention that a good friend of mine, the Scots but
> now South Australian poet, Alison Flett, has written a series of poems
> about foxes.
>
> This was the only one I could find available online:
>
> http://littlewindowspress.com/index.php/fox-1-umvelt/
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
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> Subject:Fox
>
> *Fox*
>
> 1
>
> The thing is,
>
> can you even be sure
>
> you saw it?
>
> That even-haunched
>
> cool stepper,
>
> intent
>
> as a gunslinger.
>
> Now definitely
>
> not there.
>
> 2
>
> Despite dog dimensions
>
> he moves undoglike-ly
>
> An otherworld visitor
>
> daintily trotting
>
> from eucalypt shade
>
> down earth's stony path
>
> splayed tail almost
>
> independent accomplice
>
> From where does all that
>
> red swagger spring?
>
> bw
>
> 18.4.18
>
>
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