Thanks Dave, by the way, for introducing me to spectra. The best work either of them ever did.
-----Original Message-----
>From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Jul 12, 2012 3:00 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Snap for Kent
>
>>On 12 July 2012 06:24, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Isn't araki a drink? <
>
>In Amharic, I believe. Not understand. But otherwise it's folding Japanese
>paper and a literary war.
>
>On 12 July 2012 06:24, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Isn't araki a drink?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Jul 12, 2012 12:57 AM
>> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >Subject: Re: Snap for Kent
>> >
>> >It was suggested by a game of araki :)
>> >
>> >On 12 July 2012 01:24, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Which leaves only the question of what this has to do with Kent.
>> >>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> >From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> >Sent: Jul 11, 2012 7:29 PM
>> >> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> >Subject: Re: Snap for Kent
>> >> >
>> >> >Oh dear. German for ham too!
>> >> >
>> >> >It could have been an AY for KJ I suppose, but AK is "Anne Knish".
>> >> Spectra.
>> >> >Opus 67.
>> >> >
>> >> >On 11 July 2012 22:54, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Nice poem, Dave, tho I have no idea what it has to do with Kent.
>> Unless
>> >> >> "speck" is meant to be read as the German word for ham.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> >> >From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> >> >Sent: Jul 11, 2012 3:36 PM
>> >> >> >To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> >> >Subject: Re: Snap for Kent
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >I agree about the abomination, Doug, as far as cream goes. I better
>> >> >> >underscore that 'Kent' is 'KJ' as in Kent Johnson.and 'speck' might
>> >> >> suggest
>> >> >> >'Spectra' and 'AK' is initials that can be linked to both.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >:)
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >On 11 July 2012 18:07, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> Neat. I also 'saw' 'white drones' for some reason.... But this is
>> >> >> England,
>> >> >> >> eh?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> The near & the far (but I consider cream or milk in tea an
>> >> abomination,
>> >> >> >> Dave).
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Doug
>> >> >> >> On 2012-07-11, at 12:45 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> > *Speck*
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > *
>> >> >> >> > *
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > *an AK for KJ*
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Would not in the early morning
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > my mind start toward the East.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > There are white domes somewhere
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > under that blue and emptied sky, white domes, white domes,
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > therefore even the cream
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > is burnished safest yellow.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > Cream it is and better than lemon
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > in the first tea at breakfast.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > I think of tigers as eating the sun
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > and drinking lemons.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > These teabags come from a green grocer,
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > not the long blue miles to Ceylon.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > The herring boats set out
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > toward the red shoals.
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> > --
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>> >> >> >--
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>> >> >> >**
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>> >> >David Joseph Bircumshaw
>> >> >**
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>> >--
>> >David Joseph Bircumshaw
>> >**
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>> >http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
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>--
>David Joseph Bircumshaw
>**
>Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.com
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