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Thanks Sheila, Andrew, Patrick. Not sure where poem leads. Don't want to suggest that action is all. Just occurred to me that it is such a human trait to name as in 'particular noun' things almost as a reflex, maybe in the process missing intrinsic qualities of things. Bill On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 5:19 PM, Patrick McManus < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi Bill Grenfell has terrible resonances here in uk the tower block > disaster > > poets doing stuff without wording ! > > cheers P > > > On 04/07/2017 23:21, Bill Wootton wrote: > > Why must we - > > traverse the Darling River, > > accept shade from a coolibah tree, > > chinwag with Henry at Grenfell? > > > > We could cross a river, > > sit under a tree, > > meet someone at a place. > > But why even that? > > > > Why the compulsion to designate? > > For efficiency's sake? aesthetics? > > Was there ever a time > > we just took things > > > > for what they were, > > did stuff, > > without > > wording? > > > > bw >