Begins as aubade as Max suggests, then into the day.
I too, with Bill,wonder about that line, & also ‘place’ the legs? an other verb there?
I like how it takes off from the Armantrout, & the birdsong…
But perhaps that 1st bit stands well by itself…?
Doug
On Mar 3, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've been sleep too long, but now I am at least half awake ...
>
> I may want to lie still
> And think about my choices.
> - Rae Armantrout
> I lie in late
> beside my wife
> listening to the first birds
> of the third day of autumn.
> When the bird song pauses
> I place my legs over the edge
> of our bed and contemplate
> our day while the blood
> settles in my flow pattern,
> pump primed and working fine.
> Bird song begins again.
> I whistle back, hoarsely,
> and my wife disturbs in bed.
>
> ii
>
> Which t-shirt will I wear today?
> the Shakespeare quote,
> the Beckett portrait, or
> the tatty black one, the one
> I call *Night Life in Corowa?*
>
> iii
>
> It's Tuesday, the day
> the Country Women's Association
> meets in the old red hall
> opposite the IGA Supermarket.
> My wife returns with
> new Pelargonian plants to plant
> and a new book of patterns,
> aptly called CloselyKNIT
>
> --
>
> All comments welcome.
>
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>
Douglas Barbour
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