Thanks Doug. Now, the pleasure was all mine - writing a poem after a long
gap is a great relief!
A Nony Mouse
On 7 March 2015 at 02:30, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Reads well, Andrew.. A little anniversary gift, eh?
>
> Doug
> On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:12 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thank you, Bill and Sheila. I thank all who contributed responses
> earlier -
> > you all helped me write the rewrite.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> > On 6 March 2015 at 15:40, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> I like this so much, Andrew. There is a feeling of closeness that
> pervades
> >> the poem. "disturbs in bed" is lovely.
> >>
> >> Thank you. Sheila
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Community
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *I may want to lie still*
> >>>
> >>> *And think about my choices.*
> >>>
> >>> - *Rae Armantrout*
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I lie in late
> >>>
> >>> beside my wife
> >>>
> >>> listening to the first birds
> >>>
> >>> of the third day of autumn.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> When their song pauses
> >>>
> >>> I slowly swing my legs over
> >>>
> >>> bed's edge and contemplate
> >>>
> >>> our day while the blood
> >>>
> >>> settles in my flow pattern.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Bird song begins again.
> >>>
> >>> I whistle back, hoarsely,
> >>>
> >>> and my wife disturbs in bed.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ii
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Which t-shirt will I wear?
> >>>
> >>> Shakespeare quote,
> >>>
> >>> Beckett portrait, or
> >>>
> >>> the black one, the one I call
> >>>
> >>> *Night Life in Corowa*?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> iii
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It's Tuesday. Today
> >>>
> >>> the Country Women's Association
> >>>
> >>> meets in the corrugated red hall
> >>>
> >>> opposite the IGA Supermarket.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> My wife returns with
> >>>
> >>> Pelargonian plants to plant
> >>>
> >>> and a book of craft patterns,
> >>>
> >>> aptly called *Closely*KNIT.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Andrew
> >>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> There is no life that does not rise
> melodic from scales of the marvelous.
>
> To which our grief refers.
>
> Robert Duncan.
>
--
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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