Hums means hums, Patrick (Wittgenstein, *Tractacus*)* (*1.1. The world is
the totality of facts, not of things.) ('Facts are deeds withered into
things.' Ernst Fischer)
Andrew
On 4 March 2011 01:20, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Does hums mean smells??
> P :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 03 March 2011 17:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snap: humorning
>
> neatly catching that soundtrack, Andrew. & also getting rid of those
> shoulds...
>
> Doug
> On 2011-03-01, at 6:11 PM, andrew burke wrote:
>
> > Crunching on muesli, dog
> > crunching on biscuits, cockatoo
> > crunching on gum nut -
> >
> > the soundtrack of
> > morning, passenger jet
> > interrupting.
> >
> > A poem should sound
> > in the receiver of
> > its reader, although
> >
> > *should *should be
> > banished as 'thought
> > censors activity'.
> >
> > Refrigerator hums
> > computer tower hums
> > my wife hums -
> >
> > it's suburban
> > *Stimmung*
> > of a sorts
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> > http://www.picaropress.com/
> > http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> > http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.h
> tml
>
> Just a late night pilgrim
> Looking for redemption in the underground.
> Lord, won't you help a late night pilgrim
> When the morning comes around.
>
> Tift Merritt
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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