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Cricket, footy, soccer, whatever. It's a public school in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. OK, Wednesdays it is, Patrick. Probably should wait for it to gestate anyway. Rubbing shoulders is what I felt often as a teacher. Rubbing shoulders with the great ones. Teaching literature to teenagers. Maybe they associated me with those who really cranked out literature. But much of the time all I had on them was I'd read the poem half a dozen times more than they had. Head brimming with what and how to teach things and then the natural world would impinge. What have I to teach a magpie? Can't nail it in words yet, that sound of lonely entitlement in the car park. And giving up their song despite a not very successful poato chip scrounge. Hoo roo, Bill On 28/05/2012, at 9:05 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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>. > >