I don't have anything much to say about this, other than I like it alot. It
connects me to a personal history I know nothing of.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:59 AM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Circum circa
>
> Circa a European Year of Revolutions,
> of Kossuth and Cavour and Louis Napoleon's Eighteenth Brumaire,
> when Chartists massed, faintly tinted in life colours,
> in the first known crowd photograph
> and a grim economist fused a hissing manifesto,
> one man found everything to lose,
> one man preserved
>
> by the Heanor and District Historical Society,
> one man who might have been
> co-patrilineal
>
> to this one, scribbling here, a bone trace of age unstated,
> Joseph of my surname, asphyxiated (circa)
> 1848 at a firedamp lit hard seam at Loscoe pit.
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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