Like the slo-mo tai chi kick, Max. 'Noticing I admire' seems a bit clumsy at first.
Bill
On 04/09/2013, at 12:07 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> All in a Day
>
>
> Noticing I admire his high hedge,
> he says he still clips it himself,
>
> and his neighbour their side:
> 'luckily the notorious hedge-
>
> burner of these suburbs
> in recent years hasn't found us.
>
> It's so dense up top, one night
> a fox ran right along it.'
>
> *
>
> We stop at the red light;
> a bright orange hat appears,
>
> under it a spruce juggler
> handling one two three balls.
>
> Tip him we must. Before the green
> he's paced the line of cars,
>
> holding towards us his
> hat with its three balls.
>
> *
>
> Visiting the seniors' club
> for afternoon tea with our dogs,
>
> the young Lab perks up
> at new faces to greet,
>
> offering to lick their hearing
> aids from their ears,
>
> scrambling over the lino
> to the plates of cake and fruit.
>
> The old folk brighten
> filling the room with tales
>
> of dogs they used to know
> who loved them dearly.
>
> Our old Lab stands round
> awkwardly, not quite pettable.
>
> *
>
> Under the park trees two slow
> tai-chi devotees in unison
>
> attract my off-leash Labrador.
> She moseys up to them as if
>
> about to give them both a sniff,
> whereat a graceful slo-mo kick
>
> redirects her to my care.
> Dusk, and birds are settling down.
>
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