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On Sep 9, 2015, at 15:58, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Nice, Max. I wonder that you allowed 'though' to slip in (line 9).
> 
> Bill

Bill, thanks, 

but I’m embarrassed to think I have 'slipped in' some faulty expression.

Is it that it’s too colloquial to sit easily with the rest?

Max

> 
>> On 10 Sep 2015, at 12:21 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> Chestnuts
>> 
>> Up in the park
>> you can recover
>> from the climb:
>> 
>> perch on a bench,
>> drawing breath
>> beneath old trees,
>> 
>> shielded from quick
>> time by their slowness.
>> Eye-catching, though,
>> 
>> are darting squirrels