No embellishment Jill,
Local road here closed last night by Cumbria Constabulary due to heavy snow and two traffic
accidents.
Roger
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From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: snap - in time
> You mean the 'zimmer inferno, burn wheelies burn'.
>
> I've just come back from Adelaide. Too hot - 35 degrees for a week, so we had to catch taxis
> everywhere, even down the corner to the pub. It's that time of year when air-con becomes an
> attractive idea. I heard one visiting Englishman assure us that they had just been digging
> cauliflowers out of the snow where he came from (Cornwall?). Could this be true? He was a
> writer chappy (name of Patrick Gale) so maybe he was embellishing.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
> On Thursday, March 9, 2006, at 12:33 AM, Patrick McManus wrote:
>
>> Jill--------Ah that mutual heat!!melt my zimmer cheers P olden P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
>> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jill Jones
>> Sent: 08 March 2006 12:28
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: snap - in time
>>
>> There's no such thing as an innocent day
>> but the important emptiness of time is still in the kitchen.
>>
>> I'm thinking of tomorrow, how a newer day opens
>> but first grope's for coffee, last of the milk, say!
>> where's time if the clock's dead, it's been eight fifteen for days.
>>
>> I've written deliberately on scraps with a leaky pen
>> of actual golden days, old friends hoarded, forgotten.
>>
>> I'm lazy as a drowsy cat watching lizards play
>> but a cavity within keeps insisting the catch
>> no matter, trains are late, traffic tuned to chaos.
>>
>> To be not anxious nor irritable, checking a watch
>> everything says so much, stance, gesture, dress.
>>
>> All this fire is from mutual heat and single matches.
>>
>> It's this standing apart, watching, that's curious.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jill Jones
>> 8 March Marrickville
>>
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