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Putt-putt guides the pronunciation better, I concede, and will now spell it so. Thanks for comments, e-friends. Max On Nov 11, 2015, at 16:33, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 >>