Ditto from me, Max, Andrew, Doug. Final couplet particularly satisfying.
Bill
On 26/09/2013, at 3:07 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And there we are, the piece, the response, & I am happy with them both...
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> Doug
> On 2013-09-24, at 9:41 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I see it as a four frame comic strip - with a sense of sadness overleaf.
>> Thanks for that. Andrew
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>> On 25 September 2013 13:17, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> The Fault-Line
>>>
>>> There's a man in the park
>>> with metal objects in his hands,
>>>
>>> addressing the trees and us:
>>> Listen, there's a fault-line up there
>>>
>>> (gesturing to the clouds) - it runs
>>> from here to San Francisco.
>>>
>>> It's been there thousands of years.
>>> I'll give you the email you need -
>>>
>>> (something) hotmail dot com.
>>> Any day it's going to - but the dog
>>>
>>> and I have walked out of earshot.
>>> I glance back - he's on his knees.
>>>
>>> Maybe that other guy is paying
>>> attention - or with him, even.
>>>
>>> The prophet strikes me as cut-off,
>>> liable to erupt - apocalyptic.
>>>
>>> Any day the fault-line may open
>>> over him, swallow him up. Us up?
>>>
>>> He warned us, he told us so.
>>> And I won't have emailed
>>>
>>> for the lowdown hotmail info.
>>> The old trees near him once shed
>>>
>>> huge limbs, the lesions unhealed
>>> gape alert like giant ears.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>> 'Undercover of Lightness'
>> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
>> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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