The cricket oval?? Vauxhall !! -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Randolph Healy Sent: 27 May 2012 11:48 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Whoops, that's mor n ing "harangue the air" - that's magpies for you. best R On 27/05/2012 11:21, Bill Wootton wrote: >> Subject: Education snap >> >> You're rubbing shoulders, >> sings Brian Ferry, for My pleasure >> >> thanks to a free-ranging I-pod >> as I pull into Reservoir High's empty car park. >> >> Twa magpies conspire on asphalt. >> One actively beaks a discarded chip packet >> >> seeking morsels while the other waits. >> The seeker seems to see that inversion is required >> >> But it is beyond him. >> Ferry flicked, I emerge >> >> just in time to hear a celebratory morning warble issue spontaneously >> from the beaks of both birds. >> >> Their interweaving trills harangue the air and bounce off the >> gymnasium walls. >> >> I walk toward them. They skitter away. >> Upending the packet completely causes >> >> the last remaining skerricks to plop, the packet bounces off in a >> sudden wind. >> >> The magpies soar off over the oval >> I turn to teach. >> >> > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5024 - Release Date: > 05/26/12 > > -- HEX by Randolph Healy U.S. Kindle Store <http://www.amazon.com/HEX-ebook/dp/B007YT27FQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie= UTF8&qid=1336913755&sr=1-1> U.K. Kindle Store <http://www.amazon.co.uk/HEX-ebook/dp/B007YT27FQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&i e=UTF8&qid=1336913370&sr=1-1> Download a free Kindle reading app for pc or mac here <http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sv_kinh_1?ie=UTF8&docId=100049377 1>.