----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Duemer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: snap 10 Jan: feathers
> That's a little like Stevens.
>
> jd
>
>
It was in there, though. Cut out the extraneous stuff.
On 1/9/07, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 6:44 PM
>> Subject: snap 10 Jan: feathers
>>
>>
>> > These feathers?
>> >
>> > - picked up in the park
>> > when the morning sun
>> > brought out their sparkle.
>> >
>> > This would be from a magpie
>> > (local version, pert, musical),
>> > this from a harsh cockatoo,
>> >
>> > this with its speckles
>> > a crooning tawny frogmouth,
>> > or a loud kookaburra.
>> >
>> > They all had a sheen
>> > when I pocketed them -
>> > like the pebbles
>> >
>> > on a clear creek bed
>> > precious while wet only -
>> > indoors flat as flat.
>> >
>> > The rainbow lorikeet
>> > dead on the roadway -
>> > to stoop and pluck
>> >
>> > would have seemed
>> > to stoop too far.
>> > It dazzled still.
>> >
>> > This feather, kept apart,
>> > I brought from Ireland -
>> > dropped by one of the swans,
>> >
>> > soon counted, by the lake
>> > in Coole Park, no less.
>> > It lay for decades
>> >
>> > on my desk, making my talk
>> > less abstract, failing
>> > to lift me into song.
>> >
>> >
>> > 10 January 2007
>> >
>> > Max Richards
>> > Doncaster, Vic.
>> >
>> > [thanks to Alison and Randolph; welcome thanks to Anny and Joseph]
>> >
>>
>> This is what I'd suggest:
>>
>>
>> These Feathers?
>>
>> - Found in the park
>> when the morning sun
>> brought out their sparkle.
>>
>> One from a magpie
>> (local, musical),
>> one from a harsh cockatoo;
>>
>> this, speckled,
>> from a crooning frogmouth,
>> or a loud kookaburra;
>>
>> and this, kept apart,
>> from Ireland - dropped
>> by one of the swans,
>>
>> soon counted, by the lake
>> in Coole Park.
>> It lay for decades
>>
>> on my desk, making my talk
>> less abstract, failing
>> to lift it into song.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
>
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