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Thanks, Sheila. Good to hear from you. I have made some slight excisions and amendments to structure as well as changing the last line which seems to contradict Dick Diver otherwise. Repose 2 They were looking over the other patrons of the restaurant to see if they had repose - Dick said no American men had repose, except himself, and they were seeking an example to confront him with. - F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night i Before cool, before Brando, before Birth of the Cool, the 1949 Miles sessions, even before Lester Young, ten years before that, Scotty’s Dick Diver had repose in spades. And sought, largely in vain, fellow reposers. He had his Zelda-like Nicole of course and besotted 18 yo Rosemary and he had Paris. ii What’s cool? Stepping back, stepping out? Ability to take it on the chin. Unruffledness. Allowing things to just drip off you. iii Cricketers could be cool. But not all. Shane Warne may have spun himself into the record books but was too ornery to have repose. Look to black for that - gum-chewing, all-smiting Viv Richards, even fielding at mid-on had it in his smile or, come to think of it, white Waugh, Mark, the seconds-older twin of captain Steve, finesser of strokes, accepter of swished outs with aplomb, surely displayed repose. iv Top flight sportsmen, purring actors, musicians, socialites, are not the only ones. Unselfish, stylish flourishes can be the province of any of us. Unless we try. bw Bill On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 4:57 pm, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > With Millicent on this, Bill. Very good piece. > > I've been a bit remote lately due to the press of some obligations. > > I will be more present soon. Sheila > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:46 PM Millicent Borges Accardi < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I love the cool feel-around of this poem and I like how the narrator was > > sorting thru experiences to define "repose/" I thought the second stanza > > was the strongest. Particularly stellar was this passage: > > Allowing things to just > > > > drip > > > > off you. > > Remember well, seeing Miles and Freddie Hubbard and even, of late, > Nicolas > > Peyton. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > > To: POETRYETC <[log in to unmask]> > > Sent: Tue, Feb 11, 2020 12:55 pm > > Subject: Repose - a draft > > > > Having repose > > > > > > They were looking over the other patrons of the restaurant to see if they > > had repose - Dick said no American men had repose, except himself, and > they > > were seeking an example to confront him with. > > > > > > - F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night > > > > > > i > > > > > > Before cool, > > > > before Brando, > > > > before Birth of the Cool, > > > > the 1949 Miles sessions, > > > > even before Lester Young, > > > > ten years before that, > > > > Scotty’s Dick Diver had repose > > > > in spades. > > > > And sought, > > > > largely in vain, > > > > fellow reposers. > > > > > > He had his Zelda-like Nicole of course > > > > and besotted 18 yo Rosemary > > > > and he had Paris. > > > > > > ii > > > > > > What’s cool? > > > > Stepping back, > > > > stepping out? > > > > Ability to take it > > > > on the chin perhaps. > > > > Unruffledness. > > > > Allowing things to just > > > > drip > > > > off you. > > > > > > Not restricted to jazz musicians > > > > or Jazz Age hipsters, > > > > cricketers can be cool. > > > > But not all. > > > > Shane Warne may have spun himself > > > > into the record books > > > > but was too ornery > > > > to have repose. > > > > Look to black for that - > > > > gum-chewing, all-smiting Viv Richards, > > > > even fielding at mid-on had it in his smile > > > > or even white Waugh, Mark, > > > > the seconds-older twin of captain Steve, > > > > finesser of strokes, > > > > accepter of swished outs with aplomb, > > > > surely displayed repose. > > > > > > Top flight sportsmen, purring actors, musicians, > > > > socialites, are not the only ones. > > > > Unselfish, stylish flourishes > > > > can be the province > > > > of any of us. > > > > Unless > > > > we know it. > > > > > > bw > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1