[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford301","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 2nd","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford301","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Plucking Geese","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford301","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford301.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffPlucking Geese\n\nAlthough a Frenchman once told me:\n\n\"En Angleterre tout est possible\",\nI still haven't seen an August snowflake\nYet I soldier on in the hope that\n\nOne summer day the lid will lift off the sky\nAs they start plucking geese in heaven-.\nBig soft quills will eddy into explosions,\nShampooing cats, making children leap like salmon\nAnd the British Isles slither from Kerry to KirkwaL 1.\n\nOvernight this snow will turn to ice-cream,\nThe Prime Minister will recall Parliament,\nThe Emperor of ice-cream will replace the gueen,\n\nSquatters will dine at the Savoy\", sheep bleat the \"Messiah\",\nFootball hooligans will tiptoe in the National Gallery.\n\nAll changed, changed utterly, and a terrible whiteness born.\nBut most important,my Frenchman will be proved right.\n\nRobert Greacen\n\nWritten in Waldshut,August '77\n","Type":"Text"}}]