A lovely double modifier!
It's an orange and lemon deluge here.
Andrew
On 25 August 2016 at 07:43, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> succumb/ to competing birds and kids?
>
> Bill
>
> On Thursday, 25 August 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > August Ripening
> > [Capitol Hill, Seattle]
> >
> > Fruit underfoot! -
> > season profligate
> > all along the street.
> > Berries - nothing major.
> > Behind those houses, I bet
> > peaches and apricots
> > burgeon, ripen, succumb
> >
> > as birds and kids compete,
> > or fall bruising darkly.
> > By neglected back fences
> > vines once trained for
> > dreamed-of vintages
> > now spread undisciplined,
> > disrespected, neglected.
> >
> > The liquor store’s overstocked
> > with bargains from regions
> > known and unknown;
> > would-be connoisseurs
> > stand about tippling,
> > nodding, discerning
> > till tipsiness sets in.
> >
> > I’ll be off now along
> > those fruit-speckled streets
> > ducking low-hanging
> > branches, their ripe burdens
> > ever so profligate -
> > stepping gingerly where fruit
> > has wasted itself on concrete.
>
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Andrew
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