splendid! a fine poem that takes me far away - thanks! Sheila
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Malcolm Robinson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Wonderful...as is so much of your work...just read the Projectionist
> Malcolm
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> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
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> > Once an Academic
> >
> > This is the time of year, late spring,
> > when, fast as I could, I'd leave
> > the last examiners' meeting – results sheets
> > signed, our students' fates sealed –
> >
> > and slip away (stern colleagues
> > resumed their stubborn research)
> > to the car-park, thence near the river,
> > leaving the car in a shady place
> >
> > with most of my clothing, search out
> > along tracks by the gum-tree-lined banks
> > my current favoured secluded spot,
> > check on my solitude, unlikely
> >
> > to be disturbed, and strip off
> > (but for dark glasses and sun-hat),
> > wade slowly in, toes tentative
> > in cool mud, the river flow
> >
> > rising against my thighs, embracing
> > my waist, my chest. Should I lift off
> > and float? maybe down to the next line
> > of rocks that angled across the stream?
> >
> > That could be delicious, and the rocks
> > made fine sunning spots, full-length.
> > Or – brace against the current,
> > edge my way right to the other bank,
> >
> > climb up through sedge and clay,
> > reaching for a wattle branch
> > and lever myself up and out.
> > Spring's first butterflies hovered,
> >
> > bees fumbled the wattle blossom,
> > bell-birds rang through the valley,
> > my big book on poetry, or even
> > a small book, deferred itself again.
> >
> > Wednesday 26 November 2008
> >
> >
> > Max Richards
> > Doncaster, Victoria
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> Malcolm
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