All good, Andrew, except it is pelargonium is it not?
Bill
> On 6 Mar 2015, at 11:11 am, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Community
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> *I may want to lie still*
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> *And think about my choices.*
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> - *Rae Armantrout*
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> I lie in late
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> beside my wife
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> listening to the first birds
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> of the third day of autumn.
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> When their song pauses
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> I slowly swing my legs over
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> bed's edge and contemplate
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> our day while the blood
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> settles in my flow pattern.
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> Bird song begins again.
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> I whistle back, hoarsely,
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> and my wife disturbs in bed.
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> ii
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> Which t-shirt will I wear?
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> Shakespeare quote,
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> Beckett portrait, or
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> the black one, the one I call
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> *Night Life in Corowa*?
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> iii
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> It's Tuesday. Today
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> the Country Women's Association
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> meets in the corrugated red hall
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> opposite the IGA Supermarket.
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> My wife returns with
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> Pelargonian plants to plant
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> and a book of craft patterns,
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> aptly called *Closely*KNIT.
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> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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