They are definitely Xmas cards but I'd like to read this poem as if cards
were days, events, things happening, and I like it very much.
On Dec 12, 2007 12:08 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Thanks Martin -yes I can identify -and me being an old nasty atheist -have
> taught most of my friends Except from a few die hard aunties to stop
> sending
> baby Jesuses flying angels and even shepherds are frowned upon unless
> atheist shepherds
> Patrick
> Ps am trying not to do cards this year cor!!!!
> Seasons greets P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Martin Dolan
> Sent: 12 December 2007 07:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Snap: Official Greetings
>
> The cards sidle in, singly,
> in pairs - restrained, official
> bonhomie in approved form
> the clean and careful noting
> of a generic season.
>
> See here a star, any star
> and here a fir tree reduced
> to lines and angles, to Euclid.
> This latest shows a landscape
> unpeopled, temperate.
>
> There is the pile for sending,
> flat and arid as the rest
> designed to avoid offence.
> Now hand and pen vacillate
> over a personal touch.
>
> Canberra, 12 December
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