Hi Keston Ink pigs and botulism (not there but it would work, eh)? Well, I have got a thing about drainage engineers, I'll confess... I've a chapter in _Imagined Commonwealths_ from the Cambridge Commonwealth Studies Series (McMillan) due out later this year entitled "Fens, Rivers, Droughts" that "examines" the fens re "landscape" etc. It is part theory and part poetry and a few other things as well. Dialect is a big thing. Oh, and I like the poem. Best, JK ____________________________________________________________________________ John Kinsella Churchill College Cambridge CB3 ODS England http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Square/8574/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%