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Dear Hugh, I am terribly sorry to hear of your injury at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. I really curse those steps that have made you fall and hurt your elbow. The poem I wrote contains 2 (little, this time) misprints (Sidney for Sydney and "or" instead of "of"). It is also accompanied by a web-site address where by clicking you could view the picture of "La tomba del tuffatore", in the Museum of Paestum. The picture was found painted in the internal wall of a massive stone tomb during the archeological excavations (Salerno - Italy) of the ancient Paestum (still named like this) where there are three intact temples identical to those in Athens (and Syracuse). The tomb belonged to a diver. The scene reproduces this young athlete in the act of symbolically splashing into the eternal waters of death, but also represents his daily training from a trampoline for his Olympic competitions). I am adding it here the web-site again for you to view the tomb of the diver in case you missed it.) http://www.comune.capaccio.sa.it/galleria_fotografica/35.htm Ciao and get better, Erminia ----- Original Message ----- From: Hugh Tolhurst <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:17 AM Subject: OLYMPIC INJURY & NOTHING BROKEN > Dear Helen & Erminia > > Thanks for your poems, which seem > very much in the spirit of Sydney, though > we've been given wonderful contasting > New Zealand accounts earlier from Scott H. > Everybody write whatever they feel like. > > I've been slow getting back through injury: > my new shoes let med down on the stairs > at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Melbourne. > Nothing broken, but my elbow is bruised > beyond writing comfort, and my lower back > is not too flash. > > For these reasons, plus a holiday coming up > near Byron Bay, I'm evacuating the poetry > etc stadium for some time. > > I'll read the late September and October archives > for Olympic Poems posts, of which I hope to see > many more. My thanks to all poets concerned. > > Weren't the Iranian weightlifters good! > > Bye for now > > Hugh Tolhurst > > PS HEAT 15 is out in orange, apparently the first > series is dead, long live HEAT (& Ivor Indyk) volume > Two. The title poem of my second collection may be > found on page 271. Uni of Newcastle made Ivor an offer > he couldn't refuse, apparently. > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%