I simply like it, Max - especially where the eight pulls ahead of the
coach's boat.
Andrew
On 12 November 2015 at 08:22, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wish we had a bit more speckling and puckering here, Max. Like the sense of
> being pulled off task by these distractions.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thursday, November 12, 2015, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
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