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