I have been so pissed off at work the last couple of weeks. I can't believe
that a University Business School can be so disorganised. How can the new
academic year that always starts in Sept/Oct be such a big surprise?
Thank you Max. At least I now know for sure that it is a universal problem
(I wrote poem instead of problem first time!) Yes, it is a universal poem
too.
Tina
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: snap: soft sift
> Oh that dream, still returning, Max.
>
> But you needn't (ever) apologize....
>
> Doug
> On 26-Sep-06, at 9:20 PM, Max Richards wrote:
>
>> Soft Sift
>>
>> Asked urgently to lecture
>> to a colleague's students
>> (though years since I retired) -
>> on Gerard Manley Hopkins,
>>
>> there I stand in an unfamiliar room,
>> a little bothered to see my colleague
>> sitting there out front,
>> and nothing in my hand -
>>
>> not even a copy of Hopkins.
>> Now what's the name of the big poem again?
>> Exiled nuns...the Channel...
>> storm...shipwreck...drownings...
>>
>> I set out to tell them how our poet
>> read the report in the morning's 'Times'.
>> I'm about to mention the Jesuit Order
>> and his asking permission to write,
>>
>> when noting the blankness
>> in the faces that I'm facing
>> brings me awake, in bed at home.
>> Sorry, Father Hopkins.
>>
>> What triggered it in part
>> is noticing some recent book title:
>> Soft Sift. Oh, in an hourglass, was it?
>> Once I'd have recited line on line.
>>
>>
>> Max Richards
>> Doncaster, Melbourne
>>
>> Wednesday 27 September 2006
>>
>>
>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Where philosophy stops, poetry is impelled to begin. He was
> a man, far away from home, biting his nails at destiny.
>
> Susan Howe
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