Thanks, Doug. I am thinking of so extending.
Bill
On 09/01/2014, at 3:30 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Saw all Bill.
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> I think 'not offering crossability' is what it's all about, & intriguing, indeed.
>
> I imagine you can extend this sequence should you wish to...
>
> Doug
> On Jan 8, 2014, at 6:03 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Bill old lad I saw Kasper's email only when you replied to it - P fretting
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>> Sent: 08 January 2014 12:29
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Bridges
>>
>> Pat, can you not see Kasper's email below? You responded to Kasper's comment
>> it looks like to me. I may be stuck but your frets are wobbling it seems.
>>
>> Funny you mention 'orchardist'. I remember as teacher this came up when
>> students came to read the word, probably in Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard'.
>> 16/17 year olds couldn't pronounce it. Had never seen the word in print.
>> They would say it like 'orchid' with no sense that that were
>> mis-pronouncing. I suppose all fruit they ever had came from a supermarket.
>> My great uncle Jim lived on an apple orchard, in a stilted wooden two-room
>> shack with a Coolgardie safe to keep his milk cool, at Harcourt near
>> Bendigo, a hundred miles or so north west of Melbourne.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 8 Jan 2014, at 8:06 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Kasper's email never arrived here!!
>>> Bill hope you are not stuck - orchardist sounds a nice job Cheers P
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: 08 January 2014 07:21
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Bridges
>>>
>>> Many thanks, Kasper. Final couplet (and indeed final section) is still
>>> a work in progress, appended yesterday when I realised the two
>>> particular bridges I was celebrating were not ones to put spring in
>>> step, they not offering crossability.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>> On 8 Jan 2014, at 11:36 am, Kasper Salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is magnificent, the majesty of bridges at their best resonates
>>>> strongly in these four sections. The hint of myth in the Benezet
>>>> story rounds out the mysticism. Not only that, but the lyrical and
>>>> yet perfectly disinterested style makes up for the splash of water
>>>> that is the final line. I love it.
>>>>
>>>> KS
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Kasper Salonen, toiminnanjohtaja
>>>> Helsinki Poetry Connection
>>>> http://hkipoetryconnection.blogspot.com/
>>>> +358505554947
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 7 January 2014 23:05, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Bridges
>>>>>
>>>>> i
>>>>>
>>>>> Walk a bridge to connect, to pass
>>>>> over a gulf. To be on a bridge is to be
>>>>>
>>>>> neither in one place or another. Rarely destination, bridges embody
>>>>> journey.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ii
>>>>>
>>>>> Avignon's stone bridge stops mid-Rhone tantalising with just four
>>>>> extant arches
>>>>>
>>>>> of its once majestic twenty two.
>>>>> Even computer imaging and years
>>>>>
>>>>> of research can't line up remnant piles.
>>>>> Must have been zig-zags
>>>>>
>>>>> for added strength, perhaps, in floods.
>>>>> Benezet the shepherd it's said,
>>>>>
>>>>> 850 years ago, with Divine push, hefted and hurled a huge rock in
>>>>> the river
>>>>>
>>>>> which became stone one of Pont
>>>>> d'Avignon. Benezet's journey ended
>>>>>
>>>>> with his interment within the bridge before its completion.
>>>>> Disinterment
>>>>>
>>>>> nearly 500 years later,
>>>>> scored him patron sainthood.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> iii
>>>>>
>>>>> Just north of Melbourne, two parallel bridges span Arthurs Creek.
>>>>> Only one takes traffic.
>>>>>
>>>>> Burke's duplicated concrete and bitumen bridge towards Nutfield,
>>>>> flat and functional
>>>>>
>>>>> but adjacent, original Burke's Bridge, a timbertrestle construction,
>>>>> now spattered
>>>>>
>>>>> with leaves and gum bark peelings, blocked at either end with
>>>>> boulders, remains
>>>>>
>>>>> the real enchanter. Patrick Burke, orchardist and nurseryman settled
>>>>> on 20 acres in 1864.
>>>>>
>>>>> None of which explains why supporting posts either side of the creek
>>>>> are not parallel.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> iv
>>>>>
>>>>> Alighting from a bridge makes you feel lighter.
>>>>> Puts a little spring in your step or your tyres.
>>>>>
>>>>> You've left somewhere behind. Crossed.
>>>>> You're somewhere else. What now?
>>>>>
>>>>> But it takes now uncrossable bridges to remind us how well stuck we
>>>>> might be.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> bw
>>>>> 8.1.14
>>>
>>
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