Hi nancy,
Liked it much. Wondered if 'I'm' might be better as 'I am', but I'm aware
that is a kind of formality that I habitually adopt and may not be such a
good thing.
CHeers,
Frank
The Tales of Faust poetry page can be found at:
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~flp/F_index.htm
> Summer Afternoon
>
>Flies land and take off from my knee,
>run aground and sweating
>in a bright gul mohur’s shade.
>
>It’s too hot to swat them,
>too hot to think Tamil,
>talk vegetables with the cook,
>understand the maid’s tale
>of disaster on the roof.
>Our mouths open and shut.
>Decisions must be made.
>I’m dull as the red-jowled chameleon
>doing pushups on a branch.
>
>The gardener’s broom swishes
>underneath a neighbour’s singing lesson:
>An exactly quavered line repeated
>in a fainter, younger voice.
>Each phrase ends on a higher note
>like the slowly seeping day,
>just one more step, or maybe two, away
>from resolution.
>
>Nancy Gandhi
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