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but not quite english though - an accent is often delightful so how much money did you make to buy wine with? my first poem sold back in the 60s got me five pounds seven and sixpence per insertion does no one mention money any more? ----Original Message Follows---- From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: publication! Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:33:01 +0100 nice one - first of many I'll warrant On 4/19/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I will soon be able to call myself a published writer; my poem >"herald" is going to appear in the next issue of Fuselit >(www.fuselit.co.uk), a uk-based magazine. I'd sent one poem to the >editor previously, but after discussion we decided it didn't fit the >issue's theme (each issue is based on a catalyst-word); this was >written with a deal more of vision & intent than the previous piece. >so here's a peek at my first ever published poem. the themeword of the >issue is NUDE. > >HERALD > >a skeletal birch is the spirit of patience >when a city wind terrorises it >into a deviltree: a support pillar of the moon >made a gallows for plastic bags¯ > >it has to wait till summer >for its pact with the bay's seaweed vault >of palettes to save its branches from whips, >and its nude roots & limbs >from homicide¯ >it has to wait to be herald >to the flower of the sun. > >now painting this halt: >a transforming gunshot star >soothes the skyline to tigerlily, >bids goodnight the peering city >with a silent burn of colour: > >my lover's outstretched leg glowed >& she laughed¯the plastic bags glowed >like hell's prototype rainbow & laughed, >blowing about like candles. > >KS > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde _________________________________________________________________ Join the millions of Australians using Live Search. Try live.com.au http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=740&referral=million&URL=http://live.com.au