Neatly aught in motion, Max.
Although I'm with the tai chi folks. And know at least one person who would not welcome that licking of hearing aids…
Doug
On 2013-09-03, at 9:53 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good one, Max. Thanks for those pictures. Andrew
>
>
> On 4 September 2013 12:24, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> How it goes, Max, how it goes. The glow of noticing each bit. Each
>> momentary this-ness.
>>
>> Thank you for the love(lines(s))
>>
>> Sheila
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> All in a Day
>>>
>>>
>>> Noticing I admire his high hedge,
>>> he says he still clips it himself,
>>>
>>> and his neighbour their side:
>>> 'luckily the notorious hedge-
>>>
>>> burner of these suburbs
>>> in recent years hasn't found us.
>>>
>>> It's so dense up top, one night
>>> a fox ran right along it.'
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> We stop at the red light;
>>> a bright orange hat appears,
>>>
>>> under it a spruce juggler
>>> handling one two three balls.
>>>
>>> Tip him we must. Before the green
>>> he's paced the line of cars,
>>>
>>> holding towards us his
>>> hat with its three balls.
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Visiting the seniors' club
>>> for afternoon tea with our dogs,
>>>
>>> the young Lab perks up
>>> at new faces to greet,
>>>
>>> offering to lick their hearing
>>> aids from their ears,
>>>
>>> scrambling over the lino
>>> to the plates of cake and fruit.
>>>
>>> The old folk brighten
>>> filling the room with tales
>>>
>>> of dogs they used to know
>>> who loved them dearly.
>>>
>>> Our old Lab stands round
>>> awkwardly, not quite pettable.
>>>
>>> *
>>>
>>> Under the park trees two slow
>>> tai-chi devotees in unison
>>>
>>> attract my off-leash Labrador.
>>> She moseys up to them as if
>>>
>>> about to give them both a sniff,
>>> whereat a graceful slo-mo kick
>>>
>>> redirects her to my care.
>>> Dusk, and birds are settling down.
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Undercover of Lightness'
> http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
> 'Shikibu Shuffle'
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Something else is out there
godamnit
And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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