Here we are, just (a few hours) under two weeks since the earthquake. We felt a decent jolt last night, which was the first one I've felt here since last Tuesday night (there have been two others we would normally have felt, but on Saturday morning we were driving, and on Saturday evening we were in …
poem seed – The Accident
By a convoluted process of link-surfing, I recently ran into a Les Murray poem – The Mare Out on the Road – that I first came across a couple of years ago in The Biplane Houses (Black Ink, 2006). It's an interesting poem for a lot of reasons. Structure for one – sort of "pantoum meets fugue, …