Max, I like 'assertive, puny'. Do you need 'wimp' after that?
I can guess which one was soon breathless of the leashed together couple.
Isn't it 'Everyone is...' or does it change with 'else'? 'are' just looks funny to me.
Cheers,
Bill
On 04/07/2012, at 1:05 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Weather Eye
>
> We're traipsing,
> dog and human,
> round the park lake,
>
> alert for raindrops and
> the darkening drift
> of rainclouds.
>
> Everyone else,
> dogs and humans,
> are in raincoats,
>
> some with umbrellas
> pessimistically
> at the ready.
>
> My neighbour's
> Jack Russell, Buddy,
> assertive, puny,
>
> looks such a wimp
> in his hoodie -
> which reads
>
> along the spine:
> I'm tougher
> than I look.
>
> If there were dog-
> umbrellas, Buddy
> would be toting one.
>
> We're not tough,
> in the shadowing
> first shower,
>
> trotting home now,
> leashed together,
> at a fast clip,
>
> one of us
> soon breathless,
> for late breakfast.
>
> From the chilly
> rain-spotted balcony
> we can see
>
> Monterey pines
> flinching; beyond,
> with the mind's eye,
>
> see the park lake
> in such weather
> getting wetter and Wetter.
>
>
> Max Richards
> Rufffey Lake Park yet again
> Doncaster, Vic.
>
>
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