Ok, I hear you, Andrew, Doug. Bill On Saturday, 13 August 2016, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Yeah, knock off the first two lines. > > Andrew > > On 12 August 2016 at 08:22, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > Yes I suppose so. I actually wrote that first stanza last thinking to > > emphasise the moment of arrest but I see your point. > > > > Bill > > > > On Friday, 12 August 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > That moment, caught, Bill. Not sure you need to insert self; could > maybe > > > leave off first stanza? > > > > > > Doug > > > > On Aug 10, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask] > <javascript:;> > > > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > > > > > Innot Hot Springs > > > > > > > > Crossing the bridge at dusk > > > > when I first hear it. > > > > > > > > Lying back in the creek > > > > hands knees belly protruding > > > > > > > > steam lifting from water > > > > a full-throated chant builds > > > > > > > > from a portly brown body > > > > head thrown back > > > > > > > > A - oo wee aah ohh ... > > > > Native American perhaps > > > > > > > > or Maori. A sound > > > > of total acceptance. > > > > > > > > bw > > > > 11.8.16 > > > > > > Douglas Barbour > > > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;> <javascript:;> > > > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > > > > > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & > Continuations > > > 2 (UofAPress). > > > Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). > > > > > > How, but thru a monstrous 'specialism', the so-called authority of > > > erstwhile 'professionals', have we come to leave breath out of images > and > > > images out of breath, anyhow? > > > > > > Roy Kiyooka > > > > > > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > Books available through Walleah Press > http://walleahpress.com.au >