A low soft sound as of whispering or muttering; gossip; a whisper; a rustling; clatter of soft woodenness banging off against itself, attempting tempting secrecy as it repeats itself wrong through the winter -- Three poems in Volume 4 Issue 1 'Peripatetica: The Poetics of Walking': http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html * http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/creativecommons/poems-for-ivor-cutler-3 http://www.cordite.org.au/poetry/cc-the-remixes/the-man-who-finds-himself-amusing "This is not a time for foolery, or compliments. It may be that both of us are within a few minutes of death... And I, at any rate, don't propose to die with polite insincerities in my mouth. " C S Lewis - That Hideous Strength --- Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London