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Max thanks google earth poem what possibilities-shame that there is a time lag perhaps later in real time -cor Big Brother !! cheers -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Max Richards Sent: 19 February 2008 22:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Snap 20 Feb: google earth Google Earth (globetrotting without jetlag) 1 As the hawk sees it or the helmeted airmanı, thus young Auden imaged his England, country of his where no one was wellı. As the astronaut sees it or the satellite circling, now all Earth shows itself imaged on our computer screens. Now no need for imagination. 2 Where would you like to hover today? Start at our home suburb, zoom down and in: thatıs our red roof, tiny garden, neighboursı pools snapped not this week (uncertain weather), but recently enough the lake looks low. Zoom back up, weıre off overseas, blue Tasman, curving coast of my old country, down over Hargest Terrace, Owairaka. Which house was Dadıs and Mumıs? Number seven, opposite the lane. Modest, spartan, pathetic, cramping, diagram of mother-love and father-shy. Escape once was slow, if airborne. Heathrow here I come again. In Hyde Park by one of those trees jetlag first hit (no-one had warned me). Edinburgh youıre so elegant, even from above. Here I walked, there was my bus stop, there the libraries. Scotland, where no one was very well, but a few were angry. Since I left I see itıs built a bit, lost a lot. Slagheaps by former coal mines linger. Is that a synthetic ski-slope on one? Up and away ... my son says zoom in on Bondi Beach, you can pick out every single sunbather. Why, so you can, and some are very brown, and very bare. Rude health; anger in short supply. The surf is very white. Wednesday 20 February 2008 Max Richards Doncaster, Victoria -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.8/1287 - Release Date: 19/02/2008 10:55