On Jan 3, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > You’re right, Doug. > > While well away from ‘poetry’ may I just share this below...? > > drifting from pyrotechnics to pyromania... > > [I'm watching out for wildfire news in the Aus media, it being January there] - IT BEING JANUARY EVERYWHERE! of course I mean fire-danger season there…M > > From The Age (Melbourne) online: > > Yesterday, 49-year-old Tatura woman Julie Ann Thumpston was questioned over suspicious fires on Tuesday and Friday and charged with 41 offences, including intentionally causing a bushfire and criminal damage caused by fire. She was refused bail by a Shepparton magistrate. > Police allege she lit 40 fires in Tatura area over the past 12 months, all on direct routes between her and her boyfriend's houses, all between midnight and 4am. > [So! these occurred over the past 12 months, and she got away with it all that time!] > M in Seattle > > On Jan 3, 2015, at 5:57 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Well, hey, much better spent on that than on, oh maybe, the poor (& undeserving)… >> >> (As you well know, it’s not the same money, so it wouldn’t have gone there anyway). >> >> Doug >> On Jan 1, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> begin afresh… >>> >>> At the first detonation of fireworks about 11.45pm our senior Labrador, Old Vanya, >>> climbed on our bed for comfort.His old ears too sensitive. >>> >>> We were toing and froing - dozens of bright boats on Lake Union out that window, >>> out the other pyrotechnics centred on the Space Needle above the very Gehry music centre. >>> >>> Herself with the camera. >>> New year’s glass of Bailey’s, dear. >>> Don’t nudge me! you nearly made me click on Delete All. >>> >>> I understand 4 July is even more colorful by the lake, >>> where Gasworks Park at the far end from us sets light to a civic fortune. >>> >>> Max >>> >>> On Jan 2, 2015, at 12:06 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> happy new ears everyone >>> >> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress). >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). >> >> that we are only >> as we find out we are >> >> Charles Olson