Dear Patrick,
Consider yourself fortunate (way beyond the North Americans!) who must
endure what facilitates our understanding! Raynes Park is the place to be,
say I! :)
Warm wishes from the toasty desert,
Sheila E
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Patrick McManus <
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> Sheila I am trying to get to grips with this poem -everyone else seems
> to!!must be refs Iam missing here in the backwaters of Raynes Park-
> P old duffer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Sheila Murphy
> Sent: 08 November 2012 22:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: After Math
>
> Her disposition in the desert
> seemed disquietingly
> sequined, a repeated lapse
> into flamboyance
>
> turned indisposed.
> story after story
> retold with shifts
> of fact. While sloshed,
>
> she sized up
> how it was during
> one of those elections
> in Chicago,
>
> that accidentally
> included her,
> the heavy snow.
> The count all wrong.
>
>
> Sheila E. Murphy
>
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