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I'm pleased to introduce poetry lovers to the Best Poetry Bookshop in the Southern hemisphere: - Nicholas Building, Level 1, 37 Swanston Street - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000 <http://bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&pc=FACEBK&mid=8100&rtp=adr.%7Epos.-37.97721_145.06628_Collected+Works+Bookshop_Nicholas+Building%2C+Level+1%2C+37+Swanston+Street%2C+Melbourne%2C+Victoria%2C+Australia&cp=-37.97721%7E145.06628&lvl=16&sty=r&rtop=0%7E0%7E0%7E&mode=D&FORM=FBKPL1&mkt=en-GB> Today 09:30 - 17:30 Phone(03) 9654 [log in to unmask] http://www.collectedworks-poetryideas.bl... Go there. Support poets, Aussie and otherwise. On 31 January 2013 12:21, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > frayed, not chipped, could be used in the next Bond movie, Max, martinis > no longer tipples of preference for aging agents. > > May your streamline moderne verse continue to emanate from new park > surroundings ... > > bill > > Where exactly, is Collected Works, a bookish destination unreached by this > little black duck? > > On 30/01/2013, at 9:21 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Goodbye Ruffey, Hello Fawkner > > > > Goodbye Ruffey - > > but I'll visit you > > occasionally. > > > > These seven years > > living beside you - > > creek lake and park - > > > > have been great for me. > > Not going to 'Donny Shoppo' > > (Doncaster Shoppingtown) > > > > will be great also. > > Down in St Kilda Road > > Melbourne 3004 > > > > I'll buy my fruit and vegies > > from Prahran Market's > > traditional stall-holders. > > > > The dogs and I will walk > > in Fawkner Park > > without a lake of ducks > > > > to circumnavigate, > > but cricket ovals > > tennis courts > > > > and a cafe > > on the pavilion > > veranda, sitting > > > > shaded by big umbrellas, > > planning which avenue > > to stroll under elderly > > > > Moreton Bay fig-trees > > returning at length > > to the private gate > > > > between park and Kia > > Ora, our venerable > > apartment building. > > > > Its name, I may add, > > comes from the cordial > > once known round the world - > > > > Maori for Welcome, > > it suited the factory owner, > > who built for his workers > > > > smart flats in the style > > of Streamline Moderne, > > 1937. > > > > The year I was launched! > > I too feel streamline-moderne even, > > somewhat chipped and frayed. > > > > Cared for by younger > > generations, we may > > continue to feel we're > > > > appreciated, > > even cherished, > > a wee while longer. > > > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ 'Undercover of Lightness' http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html 'Shikibu Shuffle' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html