ah happy memories!!! so young then (well youngish )

On 27/03/2019 09:58, Bill Wootton wrote:
> Hi Millicent.
>
> I’m still a relative new kid on the poetryetc block, introduced by the late
> Max Richards some time earlier this century. Snaps were moments captured or
> explored of a Wednesday is all I knew but I found this in the 2005 archives
> which may - or may not  - assist.
>
> Last week I barely had a Snap.
> I was another voice speaking.
> I just followed the words.
> Wrote them down. A man of duty.
> Though I was astonished at what I had to write.
> Today I can almost Snap.
> Ordinarily I like to Snap here because,
> Well, because I can project myself into the future.
> It's only Tuesday in the Americas, and Wednesday -
> The day of the Snap - in Australia. It's hard
> To snap in June. For probably lots of good reasons,
> People get emptied out in June. Papers are in, finals
> Are over. It's time to take a breath between the
> First spring harvest and that deep down - get ripe for the Fall -
> Summer. I like the idea of all that. Except I have screwed up.
> In June I always took "incompletes" at school. I wanted to
> Keep reaping - slowly, more refined - all summer long. In truth
> I hated closure. The speed and finality of it. I would get
> To the bottom of the books in July and August. I would, in fact,
> Finish reading "Light in August" in August. I also liked Vivaldi.
> During Labor - when both my children were born in June - we
> Played the "Seasons." Today it's Lucas's, my son's, 28th birthday.
> In one week it will be his sister's, Pearl. It's kind of amazing how
> In a poem - or is this a rumination? - so much will emerge. That no one
> Is ever fully ripe. We plant, tend and harvest. But there is no end.
> Well, I, too, would be quick to say, that's a cliché. The rippling of each
> Generation. And the music of that. Birth, etc., and death. My father's
> passing. Everything at a certain kind of swim. Those of us who live
> Near the waters. Oh, yes, I will not be forgiven not to mention
> The atrocities. The rip in this country. A crazy way to die. Yes,
> One constantly notices, the country, such as it was intended,
> Is busy dying. Yet, among the growing wreckage -invisible and not -
> Fertility under despair. But let's not go there. I divert too much.
> I, too, have a real deadline for which I am way late, and may suffer
> Punishment. For, at least, a minute, my son and I will go to lunch
> to put a wash, a glimmer on the future, a wizened look
> At a difficult past year, then take a walk to witness some local gardens,
> the flush, June's unbearable, yet so lovely roses.
>
> *Stephen Vincent*
>
>
> *Further easily accessible archival material - including vintage Patrick
> McManus, dropping lines in poetry lakes etc - is available at:*
>
> http://www.wildhoneypress.com/snaps_06_05/Poetryetc.htm
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 8:09 pm, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> ps spellcheck is trying to change Accardi to cardiac!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject:        Re: Snap confession
>> Date:   Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:06:22 +0000
>> From:   Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>> To:     Poetryetc: poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Millicent if my 'memory serves me well' from way back then a snap was
>> to be like a photo snap reflecting what was happening -a short blink!
>> but today seems to be just what someone is working on
>>
>> -it must all be lurking somewhere in the archives
>>
>> cheers old P
>>
>> ps
>>
>> On 27/03/2019 07:50, Millicent Borges
>> wrote:
>>> Confession--
>>> I've been on this list for close? longer? 20 years.  I was on it when I
>> lived in Venice and when people used to get into these great craft and
>> critical arguments and I moved from there in 2003  to Topanga canyon, so I
>> know i have been participating in some incarnation of Poetry Etc for
>> centuries.
>>> But
>>> Either I knew and I forgot.  Or I never knew  but. . .
>>> What is a Snap?  Is there a definition?  A flair? a secret?  I was
>> always too embarrassed to ask--
>>> Also. I'd love to broaden my horizon (both reading and submitting poems
>> in the UK) Can someone send me a rocking starter list of print and online
>> UK poetry journals?
>>> My book came out with Salmon (Ireland) a few years ago, and I'd love to
>> broaden my knowledge and reading to include more  EU poets. . .I feel
>> woefully inadequate with what poetry is doing across the pond.
>>> Take care and thanks in advance!
>>> Millicent
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