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Snapshots
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Kitchen sounds on fire I read Kathleen Raine's Guardian obituary in the newsgroup Yesterday I read it in the Times To me she always had the vision Although lacking in execution. She was one of the few people who liked my own poems With Peter Levi Whenever she got some Cat Poems she would tell me stories of her own beasts. Her Autobiographies were so dreadfully snobby And full of Cambridge. But the Guardian says that old she realised her error. The great panjamdrum of Temenos. She is forgiven everything for her cats And the love of the North. Douglas Clark Bath, UK, 11.50am, 7/09/03 Freshbot Deepbot Freshdeepbot allinurl: ... ... -site: ... ... -qwerrew Yahoo! MSN Douglas Clark Bath, Somerset, England, 7.26pm, 7/16/03 I want to come back as a cat. 'I wrote poetry for psychological reasons To minimise my contacts with psychiatrists, Not for love of language' I want to come back as a cat. A pity about the operation But it would be the best of times, Not like this. I want to come back as a cat. Douglas Clark Bath, UK 8.45pm. 7/23/03 Cat comes in with blue paint on the back of his neck. Very pleased with himself. He has only been gone half an hour. Day spent at seaside. Icecreams and Bass beer. Lovely cooling breeze. All the seagulls have come to Bath For the Three Tenors Concert tomorrow night In front of Royal Crescent. I have my free ticket.. Will be drinking in Charles Dickens old pub The Marlborough Tavern before. Openair swimming pool on top of the New Spa For seagulls delight. Not open yet, two years late. Cat heads out catflap. Too hot for me to try to sleep. Been watching Luchino Visconti bio On TV last two nights. My researched family background Drains me of writing the poems I used to. Visconti sketched his personal myth. I have none now. Must give up poetry. The tilde is cracked on Google. And the tenth datacenter has opened In Dublin. Pity my website is doing so badly. No help for it. The glory days are over. Another cup of coffee! Wasnt Dylan's last album dreadful. Primitive is the key to poetry and music. I think that's enough. Douglas Clark. Bath. UK. Midnight. *** There is death in the house Cruel cruel cat At midnight I sat and watched My tubby little mouse Scampering round too fast to catch He had been too cute to enter the boxtrap to preserve his life An hour or two later Lying in bed I heard him run up the stairs And wander around my bedroom Then I heard Cat on the stair And knew Mouse was doomed Quick move of Cat then silence In the morning light a head a body In tissue to the rubbish sack And a present for me by Cat's dinnerplate A pair of skinny legs Cruel cruel cat My tubby little mouse gone Now Cat is off to sleep in the sun And I am alone with a memory Douglas Clark, Bath, UK, 10.05am *** I study. About one per cent have genes for a psychosis, But it has to be triggered off by the environment. Which means stress. Life events. I learn. Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England .... Poetryetc is a listserv relating to poetry and poetics which provides a forum for poets to debate their critical and creative work. The list has over the years run a number of projects for its members, of which Snapshots has been the most enduring. Every Wednesday, Poetryetc members were invited to post short poems on any subject or in any form they chose. The idea was to make a poetic collage of instamatic “snaps” of that day that reflected the international membership of the list. The project has generated an astounding number of poems. The first two runs, of six weeks each, and the first ten weeks of the third run, are archived at Wild Honey Press www.wildhoneypress.com under Poetryetc Project. The rest - amounting in all to a run of a year - are archived here. Poetryetc, like its affiliate Salt Publishing (http://www.saltpublishing.com), was founded by Australian poet John Kinsella. Salt is managed by Christopher Hamilton-Emery (cemery@saltpublishing.com), while Poetryetc is owned by Alison Croggon (ajcroggon@bigpond.com). Poetryetc is now archived at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/poetryetc.html. and anyone interested can join from that url. To contact the listowner: Alison Croggon These pages are designed, maintained, and hosted by Rebecca Seiferle, the Editor of The Drunken Boat. To email. 
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