fair-sized, this is only said of fish, isn't it, Lawrence. The recently unearthed twisted king at 5' 8" might, by 5-600 odd year standards, be said to have been so but no one did, did they. anyway not fair enough, epecially only 0.5sworth for choosy chien. liked the salty picture presented.
Bill
On 06/02/2013, at 4:44 PM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Crossing the low dune to the beach, the dog
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> her some slack; and was pulled, following, to see
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> many gulls in gaggle at the head, a spit,
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> and the gulls were spitting! so, possibilities
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> of beached fish. As we neared, they all skittered
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> and rose; the dog leapt into a big rush --
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> a fair-sized southern whiting pecked half clean
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> on gull-foot-trampled sand, and she galloping off --
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> She sniffed but was unsure. Too much spattering
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> I bent down, inhaling; and lifted it;
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> half fish, its bottom side still unblemished,
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> smelling fresh to me; tossed it into waves,
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> the dog after it, jumping in, sniffing;
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> underwater, and pulled it out, dropped it
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> at the sea edge and danced away and back and
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> around but never touched the corpse again.
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> Richard Kessling / Lawrence Upton
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