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>   1. Paris partir snap (4)
>   2. pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012 (4)
>   3. patsnaps (2)
>   4. 'Historical Geography' (4)
>   5. snap 17 oct 02012 (3)
>   6. snap (3)
>   7. TRUCK today (2)
>
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>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:34:42 +1100
> From:    Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Paris partir snap
>
> Paris works.
>
> Dogs do still shit on the footpaths. But not
> as rampantly  as detractors will have you believe.
> Mostly they discreetly poop in soil at the base of trees.
> My boots and I came through scot(tie)-free.
>
> Traffic  is nuts. Parking even nuttier.
> But they manage it, the Parisians. Gloriously.
> Almost symphonically. Nudging and swerving.
> Even clipping or scraping, but sans-fussedly.
>
> Pushbikes, parping  motor scooters,
> motor bikes, motor trikes - with two front wheels -
> the better to ease over cobblestones,
> and cars and vans, all enter the fray and play.
>
> Cafes and restaurants seem to just
> arrive, fully formed, on footpaths, behind glass
> and out front, swabbed glass-topped round tables,
> precede bi-coloured, obedient, road-facing chairs.
>
> Tendered bonjours each morning from neighbours,
> tiny lift-sharers, shopkeepers, male and female,
> are sincere and joyous sounding. And to be bon soired
> in the evening by the French is to accept... enchantment.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:39:57 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012
>
> AAH!
>
> his
> belle
> told!
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r187
>
> HE LOVED
>
> he loved to
> be the one
> who flew
> over her
> cuckoo's
> nest
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r183a
>
> JUVENILIA
>
>
> he was
> still writing
> juvenilia
> in his
> mid seventies
>
>
> pmcmanus
> r185
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:15:10 +1100
> From:    Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012
>
> do not ask
>
> for whom
>
> the belle
>
> told..
>
> she told
>
> for thee
>
>
> On 17/10/2012, at 6:39 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> AAH!
>>
>> his
>> belle
>> told!
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r187
>>
>> HE LOVED
>>
>> he loved to
>> be the one
>> who flew
>> over her
>> cuckoo's
>> nest
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r183a
>>
>> JUVENILIA
>>
>>
>> he was
>> still writing
>> juvenilia
>> in his
>> mid seventies
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r185
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:40:16 +0100
> From:    Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: patsnaps
>
>
>
> Dear Patrick
>
>         >HE LOVED
>
>          he loved to
>  be the one
>  who flew
>  over her
>  cuckoo's
>>nest
>
>          gives me some very odd images
>
>  >JUVENILIA
>
>  he was
>  still writing
>  juvenilia
>>in his mid seventies
>
>          is really too close to be comfortable
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:00:31 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012
>
> Thanks Max I was going for the minimalista !!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 17 October 2012 09:15
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012
>
> do not ask
>
> for whom
>
> the belle
>
> told..
>
> she told
>
> for thee
>
>
> On 17/10/2012, at 6:39 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> AAH!
>>
>> his
>> belle
>> told!
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r187
>>
>> HE LOVED
>>
>> he loved to
>> be the one
>> who flew
>> over her
>> cuckoo's
>> nest
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r183a
>>
>> JUVENILIA
>>
>>
>> he was
>> still writing
>> juvenilia
>> in his
>> mid seventies
>>
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r185
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:03:17 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: patsnaps
>
> Thanks Lawrence 'He Loved'-thinking of cuckoos nests and husbands and things and book/film
>
> JUVENILIA I think is a self portrait!!one's insecurities!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 17 October 2012 09:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: patsnaps
>
>
>
> Dear Patrick
>
>         >HE LOVED
>
>         �he loved to
> �be the one
> �who flew
> �over her
> �cuckoo's
>>nest
>
>         �gives me some very odd images
>
> �>JUVENILIA
>
> �he was
> �still writing
> �juvenilia
>>in his mid seventies
>
>         �is really too close to be comfortable
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:22:41 +1100
> From:    Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: 'Historical Geography'
>
>          Historical Geography
>  [Warrandyte, near Melbourne]
>
> Below us the Yarra swerves right -
> down-stream from where Andersons Creek,
>
> famed an age ago for its gold-rush,*
> joins it - swerves to make 'Pound Bend' -
>
> letting part of its water divert
> left into a rock-face tunnel
>
> while the river curves back
> to almost meet itself.
>
> Clamber down the steep track
> to where the tunnel mouth gapes.
>
> I'm moving stiffly on rocks
> where once I'd spring and bound
>
> exhilarated by the torrent.
> Its tumult is strong today,
>
> renewed by spring rains.
> I've no spring left in me.
>
> Exhilarated soberly now,
> I watch speeding brown waters
>
> tumble and fan out subsiding
> into the river they're rejoining.
>
> Why the tunnel? ** that was
> gold fever too - empty
>
> the riverbend bed, clean up
> all the gold waiting there!
>
> They say it didn't pay the bills
> for engineering, explosives,
>
> and long hard labour.
> Everyone moved on.
>
> Some miners' cottages remain,
> a picnic ground, tall gums,
>
> newish suburban houses.
> Where the pound-keeper long
>
> minded stray farm-beasts, was
> returned to wombats and koalas.
>
> That young man kayaking
> boldly through the rapids
>
> could have been me -
> half an age ago.***
>
>                               October 2012
>
> *1861
> **1870
> ***1968
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:29:17 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Paris partir snap
>
> Sounds Bill like you had a good time -ah yes those tiny lifts (and stairs
> where no lifts) back in Simenon territory-and strange door locks which had
> to be turns in odd ways and a shared loo on the outside landing-ah memories
> and a lovely lady and was the kitchen three feet square
> P -flooded with memories
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 17 October 2012 01:35
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Paris partir snap
>
> Paris works.
>
> Dogs do still shit on the footpaths. But not
> as rampantly  as detractors will have you believe.
> Mostly they discreetly poop in soil at the base of trees.
> My boots and I came through scot(tie)-free.
>
> Traffic  is nuts. Parking even nuttier.
> But they manage it, the Parisians. Gloriously.
> Almost symphonically. Nudging and swerving.
> Even clipping or scraping, but sans-fussedly.
>
> Pushbikes, parping  motor scooters,
> motor bikes, motor trikes - with two front wheels -
> the better to ease over cobblestones,
> and cars and vans, all enter the fray and play.
>
> Cafes and restaurants seem to just
> arrive, fully formed, on footpaths, behind glass
> and out front, swabbed glass-topped round tables,
> precede bi-coloured, obedient, road-facing chairs.
>
> Tendered bonjours each morning from neighbours,
> tiny lift-sharers, shopkeepers, male and female,
> are sincere and joyous sounding. And to be bon soired
> in the evening by the French is to accept... enchantment.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:34:41 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: 'Historical Geography'
>
> Max you were there in 1861! young and leaping -golding great nuggets I can
> see it -were your dogs stray farm beasts?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 17 October 2012 12:23
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'Historical Geography'
>
>          Historical Geography
>  [Warrandyte, near Melbourne]
>
> Below us the Yarra swerves right -
> down-stream from where Andersons Creek,
>
> famed an age ago for its gold-rush,*
> joins it - swerves to make 'Pound Bend' -
>
> letting part of its water divert
> left into a rock-face tunnel
>
> while the river curves back
> to almost meet itself.
>
> Clamber down the steep track
> to where the tunnel mouth gapes.
>
> I'm moving stiffly on rocks
> where once I'd spring and bound
>
> exhilarated by the torrent.
> Its tumult is strong today,
>
> renewed by spring rains.
> I've no spring left in me.
>
> Exhilarated soberly now,
> I watch speeding brown waters
>
> tumble and fan out subsiding
> into the river they're rejoining.
>
> Why the tunnel? ** that was
> gold fever too - empty
>
> the riverbend bed, clean up
> all the gold waiting there!
>
> They say it didn't pay the bills
> for engineering, explosives,
>
> and long hard labour.
> Everyone moved on.
>
> Some miners' cottages remain,
> a picnic ground, tall gums,
>
> newish suburban houses.
> Where the pound-keeper long
>
> minded stray farm-beasts, was
> returned to wombats and koalas.
>
> That young man kayaking
> boldly through the rapids
>
> could have been me -
> half an age ago.***
>
>                               October 2012
>
> *1861
> **1870
> ***1968
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:15:27 +0100
> From:    Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: 'Historical Geography'
>
>
>
>         VERY good
>
>
>
>         I wonder if you need the last 4 lines
>
>
>
>         are they not implicit?
>
>
>
>         L
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
> To:
> Cc:
> Sent:Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:22:41 +1100
> Subject:'Historical Geography'
>
>  Historical Geography
>  [Warrandyte, near Melbourne]
>
>  Below us the Yarra swerves right -
>  down-stream from where Andersons Creek,
>
>  famed an age ago for its gold-rush,*
>  joins it - swerves to make 'Pound Bend' -
>
>  letting part of its water divert
>  left into a rock-face tunnel
>
>  while the river curves back
>  to almost meet itself.
>
>  Clamber down the steep track
>  to where the tunnel mouth gapes.
>
>  I'm moving stiffly on rocks
>  where once I'd spring and bound
>
>  exhilarated by the torrent.
>  Its tumult is strong today,
>
>  renewed by spring rains.
>  I've no spring left in me.
>
>  Exhilarated soberly now,
>  I watch speeding brown waters
>
>  tumble and fan out subsiding
>  into the river they're rejoining.
>
>  Why the tunnel? ** that was
>  gold fever too - empty
>
>  the riverbend bed, clean up
>  all the gold waiting there!
>
>  They say it didn't pay the bills
>  for engineering, explosives,
>
>  and long hard labour.
>  Everyone moved on.
>
>  Some miners' cottages remain,
>  a picnic ground, tall gums,
>
>  newish suburban houses.
>  Where the pound-keeper long
>
>  minded stray farm-beasts, was
>  returned to wombats and koalas.
>
>  That young man kayaking
>  boldly through the rapids
>
>  could have been me -
>  half an age ago.***
>
>  October 2012
>
>  *1861
>  **1870
>  ***1968
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:16:16 +0100
> From:    Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Paris partir snap
>
>
>
>
>
> You have to watch those shared loos
>
>
>
>         L
>
> P -flooded with memories
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On
>  Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>  Sent: 17 October 2012 01:35
>  To: [log in to unmask]
>  Subject: Paris partir snap
>
>  Paris works.
>
>  Dogs do still shit on the footpaths. But not
>  as rampantly as detractors will have you believe.
>  Mostly they discreetly poop in soil at the base of trees.
>  My boots and I came through scot(tie)-free.
>
>  Traffic is nuts. Parking even nuttier.
>  But they manage it, the Parisians. Gloriously.
>  Almost symphonically. Nudging and swerving.
>  Even clipping or scraping, but sans-fussedly.
>
>  Pushbikes, parping motor scooters,
>  motor bikes, motor trikes - with two front wheels -
>  the better to ease over cobblestones,
>  and cars and vans, all enter the fray and play.
>
>  Cafes and restaurants seem to just
>  arrive, fully formed, on footpaths, behind glass
>  and out front, swabbed glass-topped round tables,
>  precede bi-coloured, obedient, road-facing chairs.
>
>  Tendered bonjours each morning from neighbours,
>  tiny lift-sharers, shopkeepers, male and female,
>  are sincere and joyous sounding. And to be bon soired
>  in the evening by the French is to accept... enchantment.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:24:20 -0600
> From:    sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: snap 17 oct 02012
>
> *It’s the season of retreat,
> the season of death.
> Leaves on the lily turn
> yellow, then brown, then
> fall. But this death is not
> close, not dark. Trees open
> to sky, blue falls down
> through bare branches.
> I step outside into a whirl-
> wind of gold leaves.*
>
>
> --
> sharon brogan
> http://www.sbpoet.com
> http://www.sbpoet.net
> http://smallpoems.sbpoet.net
> 406.578.1788
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:46:04 +0100
> From:    Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: snap
>
>
>
>         Snap
>
>         Two boy children following mother.
>
>         One boy utters a few strange words
>
>         and the other grabs hold of him;
>
>         then, with a voice taken from films,
>
>         chant lectures on the seriousness
>
>         of the situation they now face,
>
>         as if they were soldiers, nothing
>
>         he says realistic,ending
>
>         “Now snap out of it”, pushing him
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:04:17 -0600
> From:    Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012
>
> Geez, that's me, too, that juvenile. And love the response, Max.
>
> Doug
> On 2012-10-17, at 3:00 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Max I was going for the minimalista !!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Max Richards
>> Sent: 17 October 2012 09:15
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: pat snaps **********_______**********Wednesday, 17 October 2012
>>
>> do not ask
>>
>> for whom
>>
>> the belle
>>
>> told..
>>
>> she told
>>
>> for thee
>>
>>
>> On 17/10/2012, at 6:39 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>>
>>> AAH!
>>>
>>> his
>>> belle
>>> told!
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r187
>>>
>>> HE LOVED
>>>
>>> he loved to
>>> be the one
>>> who flew
>>> over her
>>> cuckoo's
>>> nest
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r183a
>>>
>>> JUVENILIA
>>>
>>>
>>> he was
>>> still writing
>>> juvenilia
>>> in his
>>> mid seventies
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r185
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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>
> Latest books:
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>
>
> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
>         H.L. Mencken
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:18:27 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: snap
>
> Poor kids -reminds of my childhood -don't upset mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 17 October 2012 16:46
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: snap
>
>
>
>         Snap
>
>         Two boy children following mother.
>
>         One boy utters a few strange words
>
>         and the other grabs hold of him;
>
>         then, with a voice taken from films,
>
>         chant lectures on the seriousness
>
>         of the situation they now face,
>
>         as if they were soldiers, nothing
>
>         he says realistic,ending
>
>         �Now snap out of it�, pushing him
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:20:18 +0100
> From:    Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: snap 17 oct 02012
>
> Yes that sudden carpet of leaves
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of sharon brogan
> Sent: 17 October 2012 16:24
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: snap 17 oct 02012
>
> *It's the season of retreat,
> the season of death.
> Leaves on the lily turn
> yellow, then brown, then
> fall. But this death is not
> close, not dark. Trees open
> to sky, blue falls down
> through bare branches.
> I step outside into a whirl-
> wind of gold leaves.*
>
>
> --
> sharon brogan
> http://www.sbpoet.com
> http://www.sbpoet.net
> http://smallpoems.sbpoet.net
> 406.578.1788
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:23:05 -0600
> From:    Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: 'Historical Geography'
>
> I like the history cut & shut into the poem, Max. Am not sure if I agree with Lawrence's question or not. Yes, it is sort of implied, but the tone has its own effect. Think on it?
>
> Doug
> On 2012-10-17, at 6:15 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>       VERY good
>>
>>
>>
>>       I wonder if you need the last 4 lines
>>
>>
>>
>>       are they not implicit?
>>
>>
>>
>>       L
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
>> To:
>> Cc:
>> Sent:Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:22:41 +1100
>> Subject:'Historical Geography'
>>
>> Historical Geography
>> [Warrandyte, near Melbourne]
>>
>> Below us the Yarra swerves right -
>> down-stream from where Andersons Creek,
>>
>> famed an age ago for its gold-rush,*
>> joins it - swerves to make 'Pound Bend' -
>>
>> letting part of its water divert
>> left into a rock-face tunnel
>>
>> while the river curves back
>> to almost meet itself.
>>
>> Clamber down the steep track
>> to where the tunnel mouth gapes.
>>
>> I'm moving stiffly on rocks
>> where once I'd spring and bound
>>
>> exhilarated by the torrent.
>> Its tumult is strong today,
>>
>> renewed by spring rains.
>> I've no spring left in me.
>>
>> Exhilarated soberly now,
>> I watch speeding brown waters
>>
>> tumble and fan out subsiding
>> into the river they're rejoining.
>>
>> Why the tunnel? ** that was
>> gold fever too - empty
>>
>> the riverbend bed, clean up
>> all the gold waiting there!
>>
>> They say it didn't pay the bills
>> for engineering, explosives,
>>
>> and long hard labour.
>> Everyone moved on.
>>
>> Some miners' cottages remain,
>> a picnic ground, tall gums,
>>
>> newish suburban houses.
>> Where the pound-keeper long
>>
>> minded stray farm-beasts, was
>> returned to wombats and koalas.
>>
>> That young man kayaking
>> boldly through the rapids
>>
>> could have been me -
>> half an age ago.***
>>
>> October 2012
>>
>> *1861
>> **1870
>> ***1968
>>
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Latest books:
> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
>
> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
>         H.L. Mencken
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:25:13 -0600
> From:    Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Paris partir snap
>
> I remember it well.  Caught a glimpse here, Bill, nicely.
>
> Doug
> On 2012-10-16, at 6:34 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Paris works.
>>
>> Dogs do still shit on the footpaths. But not
>> as rampantly  as detractors will have you believe.
>> Mostly they discreetly poop in soil at the base of trees.
>> My boots and I came through scot(tie)-free.
>>
>> Traffic  is nuts. Parking even nuttier.
>> But they manage it, the Parisians. Gloriously.
>> Almost symphonically. Nudging and swerving.
>> Even clipping or scraping, but sans-fussedly.
>>
>> Pushbikes, parping  motor scooters,
>> motor bikes, motor trikes - with two front wheels -
>> the better to ease over cobblestones,
>> and cars and vans, all enter the fray and play.
>>
>> Cafes and restaurants seem to just
>> arrive, fully formed, on footpaths, behind glass
>> and out front, swabbed glass-topped round tables,
>> precede bi-coloured, obedient, road-facing chairs.
>>
>> Tendered bonjours each morning from neighbours,
>> tiny lift-sharers, shopkeepers, male and female,
>> are sincere and joyous sounding. And to be bon soired
>> in the evening by the French is to accept... enchantment.
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
>         H.L. Mencken
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> ------------------------------
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> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:37:27 -0600
> From:    Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: snap
>
> Caught on the run, Lawrence, & such an uncanny bit of dialogue...
>
> (mind you I remember some time ago watching a bunch of kids play out a whole film almost word for word rather than making their oown game up...).
>
> Doug
> On 2012-10-17, at 11:18 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Poor kids -reminds of my childhood -don't upset mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 17 October 2012 16:46
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: snap
>>
>>
>>
>>       Snap
>>
>>       Two boy children following mother.
>>
>>       One boy utters a few strange words
>>
>>       and the other grabs hold of him;
>>
>>       then, with a voice taken from films,
>>
>>       chant lectures on the seriousness
>>
>>       of the situation they now face,
>>
>>       as if they were soldiers, nothing
>>
>>       he says realistic,ending
>>
>>       �Now snap out of it�, pushing him
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
>
> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
>         H.L. Mencken
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> ------------------------------
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> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:38:22 -0600
> From:    Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: snap 17 oct 02012
>
> That, & I'm intrigued by who these speakers might be, Sharon (those quotation marks count).
>
> Doug
> On 2012-10-17, at 11:20 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Yes that sudden carpet of leaves
>> P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of sharon brogan
>> Sent: 17 October 2012 16:24
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: snap 17 oct 02012
>>
>> *It's the season of retreat,
>> the season of death.
>> Leaves on the lily turn
>> yellow, then brown, then
>> fall. But this death is not
>> close, not dark. Trees open
>> to sky, blue falls down
>> through bare branches.
>> I step outside into a whirl-
>> wind of gold leaves.*
>>
>>
>> --
>> sharon brogan
>> http://www.sbpoet.com
>> http://www.sbpoet.net
>> http://smallpoems.sbpoet.net
>> 406.578.1788
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> Wednesdays'
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>
> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
>         H.L. Mencken
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> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:40:02 -0600
> From:    Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: TRUCK today
>
> http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.ca/2012/10/inference-betold-by-louis-cabri.html
>
> or
>
> http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.ca
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> seems to do (with all of them there).
>
> Doug
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> Wednesdays'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
>
> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>
>         H.L. Mencken
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> Date:    Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:57:25 -0500
> From:    Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: TRUCK today
>
> Nice quotation from the sage of Baltimore, Doug.
>
>
> Mastering this universe one Higgs boson at a time.
>
> Hal
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> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>>
>> http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.ca/2012/10/inference-betold-by-louis-cabri.html
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.ca
>>
>> seems to do (with all of them there).
>>
>> Doug
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>> Wednesdays'
>>
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>>
>>
>> In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful
>> for; I am thankful that I am not a Republican.
>>
>>         H.L. Mencken
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> End of POETRYETC Digest - 16 Oct 2012 to 17 Oct 2012 (#2012-287)
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