As a result of an off-air comment by Mark Weiss re the pastoral and
Central Park I thought I'd post this extract from a long poem, "The
Benefaction". Gender issues in the "pastoral" - all those men bound
to the scape, or scaping (though not panning!) the land:
Oh, bandicoots are, like many other native fauna, heading for
extinction as the forests of the South West (and everywhere else!)
of Australia are peeled back by logging companies and pastoral
interests...
On the pastoral and Central Park this (from a long poem
"The Benefaction"):
The Potential for Pastoral Musings in New York
manbound parakeet rat-stripped to the bone
deadly dead man wild or domesticated
as trees smoke and opossums perish
and the bandicoot is ripped from its lair
conceptually in the glades of Central Park,
black hole of the skating rink, Frederick
Lar Olmsted decisively as Hallet Nature
Sanctuary's bull paradise beauty quicker
stopping lines for birds transpires like a
charming ride in a gloomy countryside,
for he came down from Venice by invitation
and colonised parallel space, points of contact
potential like paint soaking through from an
original: the now the then the potential
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