Yes: wow, how that NZ shore affects the poetic response, Jill. We're there, perceiving with you...
Doug
On 2013-02-06, at 3:15 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Now that is good
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> Subject:snap: grey and warm
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> Grey and Warm
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> walking towards the white
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> late morning
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> open a curtain
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> there is another curtain
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> this ancient weather
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> it is today’s
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> the fog speaks
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> with heron noise
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> shadows gathering
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> sand worms or shells
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> the worms scribe
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> through granules
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> three ducks fly
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> like three ducks flying
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> up a blue wall
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> then they turn back
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> into the white
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> twenty horses file past
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> shrouded opposite here
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> away from the lagoon
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> mouth turn a corner
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> of a dune
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> who are these misty riders
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> making up a school
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> the godwits gather
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> on a sandbar
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> the oystercatchers
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> come closer
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> it is all about feeding
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> and sifting
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> surviving with
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> water and air
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> a four wheel drive
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> shunting a dinghy
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> from mooring to somewhere
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> a shag shows its wingspan
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> to the wind
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> language and sign
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> indistinguishable
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> not decipherable
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> apart from the usual
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> guesswork
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> what do gulls utter
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> may or may not be
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> obvious
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> the sea fog does not
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> lift all day
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> which is grey and warm
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> and continuous
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Douglas Barbour
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