' keep sneaking quick glances’ seems like a poetic, Max, & works here; the accumulation of…
(but shouldn’t it be 'putt - putt’ ?)
Doug
> On Nov 11, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Warming and welcome and good to read, Max. I find this very satisfying.
> Sheila
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Rain Puddles
>>
>> on next-door’s flat roof
>> we overlook while gazing
>> towards the lake, speckle, pucker;
>>
>> as more raindrops fall,
>> bubbles form, slither and pop.
>> Down on the lake's speckling
>>
>> also - vertical fall meets
>> horizontal spread - there - now -
>> even today seaplanes taxi,
>>
>> lift off, vanish, or buzz in
>> to touch down, long wakes
>> widening, subsiding.
>>
>> Small yachts tack about,
>> a rowing eight pulls ahead
>> of their coach’s put-put boat.
>>
>> Later - soon - two crows or three
>> will touch down on that roof,
>> let drop from each black bill
>>
>> some dry morsels, moistening
>> in one of those puddles.
>> I should be so intent
>>
>> on my reading, masticating,
>> not to be jotting this down,
>> but keep sneaking quick glances
>>
>> at raindrops, puddles, lake, the craft
>> so various, the crows, themselves
>> now scoffing and swallowing.
>>
>> Max Richards
>> above Lake Union, Seattle
Douglas Barbour
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