Wait a minute, quilts are pretty quiet.
Of course, you Aussies really don’t have snow that can quieten everything down, anyway…
Doug
On Sep 2, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some context here poetryetcers: Driving in the low hills of the Dandenongs, my wife said, I thought that sign said 'Quiet Shop' and so had I. It was the only sign competing for our eye attention. It was, of course, 'Quilt Shop', but ... never let a chance go by.
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>
> Snap up bargain slices
> of winter silence.
>
> Everything must go:
> peaceful pieces,
>
> snow-hushed layers
> of deepest absorption.
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> Make us a mute offer.
> We'll be all eyes.
>
> New Spring stock
> arriving next week:
>
> Whispers are back
> and low utterances.
>
> bw
> 3.9.14
>
Douglas Barbour
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