Raking?
I thought human rakers had been superseded by machines.
My former suburb sends round a municipal giant wheely-brush hoover to do the
gutters, into which fallen leaves had been ushered by well-timed once-overs
of each household with deciduous trees - admittedly that much required some
brisk human effort with a rake.
I guess Barry has many trees, grieving over goldengrove unleaving.
(In the street from time to time we'd hear
Time's wheely-brush chariot hoovering near.)
Max
On 22/10/07 12:27 AM, "Barry Alpert" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Doug, I enjoyed the musicality of the play amongst the consonants b, t, s,
> c, and of course l, but not thinking about the raking I will have to do
> twice in the next 50 days. Barry
>
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:43:58 -0600, Douglas Barbour
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> gutter leaves
>> curb leaves
>> leaves shards
>> left braided
>> across concrete
>>
>> leaves leaving
>> branches behind
>> a kind
>> of lofty
>> loss leaves
>> empty branches
>> stark as
>> lief to go
>>
>> Wednesday October 17 2007
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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