Good one, Max. Thanks for those pictures. Andrew
On 4 September 2013 12:24, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> How it goes, Max, how it goes. The glow of noticing each bit. Each
> momentary this-ness.
>
> Thank you for the love(lines(s))
>
> Sheila
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> 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.
> >
>
--
Andrew
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