Romp-ready is suitably cummingsesque -
Starting with a rhyme sets up in me an expectation - not of regularity but
more word music than I then hear.
Interesting set of verbs - only ‘assert’ is provided with an object.
I like best ‘waffle frizz’.
Max
On Aug 18, 2015, at 14:36, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here it comes ...
> the very ground thrums
> as if ready to burst
> from below.
>
> Dormancy retreats
> as grass blades pulse,
> ready to assert
> dominance over clay.
>
> Winds fan
> rather than chill.
> Bees lurk,
> petals provide.
>
> Wattle frizz overfills
> branches' stretching.
> Everything now ...
> romp-ready.
>
> bw
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