Hi Bill are all the bushfires out ?
On 26/02/2020 21:07, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Thanks, Doug, Patrick. This was 11 years ago in another lifetime. This
> summer we have almost seen out. 4 degrees here in Hepburn Springs this
> morning, rising to 20 during the day. And the green is returning.
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> Bill
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> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 4:40 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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>> In the moment, & in that state of frightened anticipation, nicely caught,
>> Bill…
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>> Doug
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>>> On Feb 26, 2020, at 2:36 AM, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> ah yes Bill -sad times
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>>> On 25/02/2020 21:10, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>> Black Saturday
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>>>> While we waited
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>>>> the earth rumbled
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>>>> We licked our lips
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>>>> eyes on the horizon
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>>>> What would it be first?
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>>>> Flaming embers, bright orange heat
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>>>> or the over-amplified sound of crackling branches?
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>>>> While we slept
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>>>> it murdered on
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>>>> in Strathewan, Marysville, St Andrews
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>>>> When my eyes flicked open myopically
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>>>> I thought the blowsy box-leaf canopy
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>>>> was a massive plume of smoke
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>>>> But it wasn’t. This time
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>>>> bw
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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>> Done in by creation itself.
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>> 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?
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>> Robert Kroetsch
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