Thanks for yr email, Bill. I've only been to New York through poetry and the New Yorker. Enjoy your snow-filled time - and bring back news from 'the front'. Is there a third generation of NY poets? :-) How's the jazz from the Big A? Such are the questions of the landlocked Corowa citizen. Bon voyage - Andrew On 11 March 2013 16:51, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Andrew Burke, I have been slow savouring Undercover of Lightness and > today's reading spoke especially pithily. In our Mad March heatwave, I like > your line 'drink is half ice, half/gone. 'Drowning in heat' fair nails this > patch too. > > We are jack of it here and in fact, my wife Chris and I are heading for > New York next week in search of snow, just to rub it under the armpits. > > Cheers, > Bill -- 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