Hi Arthur,
I've been enjoying your recent postings quite a lot. I have a little
trouble with stars 'crackling'(although my partner who has cast an eye over
what I am writing as she passed takes me to task over this, stating 'of
course they crackle', so there you go LOL), also 'plashings'.
Sigh, she puts my opinions into perspective.
Cheers,
Frank
>
>Bathing by starlight.
>
>Here, where the round shouldered shrubs
>drop petals on the skin of dark waters,
>the clear and cradled pool beckons.
>
>The night is a cloister of looming trees.
>Stars crackle high over the bush,
>strange constellations where cartwheeling Orion
>
>tumbles the rest apart.
>I stand naked and cool, white as any petal,
>sacked by fever, these wedges of sudden bone
>
>lowered into the grip of chill water.
>Lulled by the plashings of my swim
>and quiet gossip of the feeding stream,
>
>I roll and float, a pale fish,
>belly up, silent as the depths of ocean;
>count the countless stars, as the world wheels and hurtles.
>
>
>Now which is better? I hope Gerald has sorted out my problem, for which
>profuse and effusive felicitations, oops sorry that should be Ta!Get more
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