Interesting, Patrick, isn't it, that we seek so often to be mended by a
break.
Bill
On Saturday, 27 August 2016, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> very rich and fruity did I get a taste of Christina Rossetti
>
> yes I would have had keen eye for bruising kids
>
> just back from break am broken :-) P -old grump fast failing
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> On 25/08/2016 16:29, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>> I certainly get this, & agree with Bill about the final 4 lines, Max.
>> Didn’t really have a problem with the kids etc, but see how it might happen…
>>
>> Further North, we just have crab apples, but a lot do fall…
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On Aug 24, 2016, at 9:00 AM, 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.
>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
>> 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> Four or five couplets trying to dance
>> into Persia. Who dances in Persia now?
>>
>> A magic carpet, a prayer mat, red.
>> A knocked off head of somebody on her broken knees.
>>
>> Phyllis Webb
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