Yet from such a backwater, just like those fundamentalists, you can e-mail your 7th century or pre-historic cris-de-coeur…
Doug
On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'ranging freely'
>
> would have been OK there, I reckon
>
> thanks, Patrick
>
> the word ‘antediluvian' comes to mind,
>
> but it means from before the Flood, doesn’t it, so maybe not usable
>
>
> On Apr 1, 2015, at 1:38, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Most welcome pieces, Patrick! The season is greening, and with it, the
>> poems!
>> On Apr 1, 2015 1:19 AM, "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Oop!! I actually cut free ranging sounded like chickens
>>> BACKWATER
>>>
>>> Raynes Park
>>> he knew that
>>> he lived
>>> in a bit
>>> of a backwater
>>> but to see
>>> that morning
>>> a mammoth
>>> and
>>> a sabre tooth tiger
>>> confirmed his
>>> worst fears
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r769
>>> WERIFESTERIA
>>>
>>>
>>> he lost his
>>> werifesteria
>>> in the forest
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r756
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> Behalf Of Patrick McManus
>>> Sent: 01 April 2015 09:09
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Pat snaaps 681 ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬||||||||||||///////\¬¬¬¬¬|/||||¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬
>>>
>>> BACKWATER
>>>
>>> Raynes Park
>>> he knew that
>>> he lived
>>> in a bit
>>> of a backwater
>>> but to see
>>> that morning
>>> a mammoth
>>> and
>>> a sabre tooth tiger
>>> free ranging
>>> confirmed his
>>> worst fears
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r769
>>>
>>> WERIFESTERIA
>>>
>>>
>>> he lost his
>>> werifesteria
>>> in the forest
>>>
>>>
>>> pmcmanus
>>> r756
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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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.
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