chewed his email anyway, Pat.
Bill
On Friday, November 20, 2015, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> his dogs chewed computer??
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wootton
> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 11:58 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Gusts
>
> This is Max. I posted for him - email probs, Doug.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thursday, November 19, 2015, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> I wasn’t sure about the rhododendrons, there, or not there, Bill. The
>> story’s fine, though.
>>
>> (but what’s Max doing there?)
>>
>> Doug
>> > On Nov 18, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
>> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>> >
>> > *Gusts*
>> >
>> > Winds gusting to fifty miles an hour,
>> > I’d say, or even more, funnel
>> > through this concrete tunnel
>> > from the apartment gardens
>> > to our avenue sidewalk.
>> >
>> > A small woman in a full skirt or coat
>> > might lift right off her feet!
>> > soaring suddenly aloft.
>> > Just as, that bleak day long-gone
>> > in the ranges near Melbourne,
>> >
>> > my sister, there to enjoy
>> > the rhododendrons, even
>> > if it was the wrong month,
>> > stepped forward into the gale
>> > and it lifted her off the turf!
>> >
>> > She nearly took off - like a kite!
>> > or skydiver daring the edge of a cliff.
>> > It was only a green bluff above
>> > a steep green slope. Enough
>> > for us to hold each other back,
>> >
>> > turn away towards the azaleas
>> > and rhododendrons,
>> > trembling and laughing,
>> > as close as when we were kids.
>> > She’s safe now, my sister,
>> >
>> > but not where I’d like her to be,
>> > visiting me wherever I’m living,
>> > or me visiting where she lived.
>> >
>> >
>> > Max in sidewalk Seattle
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
>> (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> Done in by creation itself.
>>
>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>
>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>
>>
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