It was good kite-flying weather today in Willesden. Well, the wind was high, anyway. You wouldn't think it to look at this picture, but it was blustery.
If anything it was perhaps a bit too much for the enthusiasts, causing them to have a hard time controlling their kites.
The water lilies were out. You probably won't want to wait half an hour to download this movie (QuickTime, 10mb) of the willow tree above them swaying in the wind.
If I'd noticed this before, I would have asked Alura at the party last night* why there is a statue of her in Roundwood Park.
Ossian Lennon
*To celebrate a book publishing contract for a novel by London's next Zadie Smith
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the poetry of statues
Send me your kissers, your good kissers
send these kissers, lip-glossed, to me.
I lift my arms beneath the golden tree.
From: Your Cuddled Kisses, Yearning To Kiss Good
Rocky Rollins (after Emma Lazarus)
Post by : rocky rollins (webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk / showbiz and arts editor )
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the poetry of statues
I am doing a Year 12 project on the poetry of Rockwell Rollins at the American School in Holland Park and on the Number 260 bus from Shepherds Bush to Golders Green I found an issue of your newspaper which contained a copy of his poem Your Huddled Kisses, Yearning To Kiss Good (The New Kissalossus). The poem is learnt by all American girls travelling in Europe. I wonder if it would be possible for The Herald to print the full version.
I never dreamed that Mr Rollins would now be a showbiz editor on an international news digest. In a recent poll of America's 1000 Favorite Poems his poem came 816th, beating Emma Lazarus by over 100 places.
Yours Americanly
Marganita Ben Sherman
P.S The statue is very lovely.
Post by : Marganita Ben Sherman (webcacheh06a.cache.pol.co.uk / bensherman@shirts.com )
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