actually, the imagery is great (so I'll stop nit-picking!). Judy Evans, Cardiff ----- Original Message ----- From: David Ritchie To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 8:51 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Judith Evans wrote: a hard week for bp rubs hands in glee (I really like the poem except for the last line, which doesn't seem right poetically -- I also have doubts about it politically, though I suppose Browne was at the helm at the relevant times.) Yes and no. Baglan Bay's chemical plant was built, (full disclosure) under my father's supervision, in the 1960's. Browne, and I find I omitted the final "e" from his name, became CEO in 1995, so it's sort of only his plant but Baglan Bay's history and the new green-ness of BP was what I wanted to think about. In the final line I was trying to play with "refined" and "finery":