creative person you are, Bill.
Thanks, I had no notion of working on it!
Next month maybe I will report on the renovated cafe…
but all this is less poetry than etc…
Max in Seattle
On May 27, 2015, at 17:02, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Diverting enough, Max. Just wondered about that 3-line stanza with the book details in the middle of your 4-liners. And do you intend us to make anything of the observation about the plastic-covered renovations? Bodily renovations soon to come? Would you consider interchanging your final two lines?
>
> Bill
>
>> On 28 May 2015, at 1:34 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> In the bookshop armchair next to me
>> a handsome tall woman
>> with long black hair has just sat down
>> with two big books on names for babies.
>>
>> Yes she is visibly pregnant
>> and I would say in the pink
>> of health if she wasn’t
>> of Asian appearance.
>>
>> She seems to be contemplating
>> Charlotte - no, Mary - now boys’ names
>> equally. It pleases me that she
>> may not know which to expect.
>>
>> Inspired Baby Names is the bigger book -
>> ‘6000 from around the world’.
>> Author: Neala Shane.
>>
>> ‘If you like Adam, you might like…’
>> goes one entry. Her iPhone
>> distracts her a moment.
>> Now she’s at Adeline…
>>
>> Why not search the web?
>> Such a book will have been
>> compiled off the web
>> by mechanical means. Clemence?
>>
>> Her phone is bigger than mine.
>> Is she aware of my spying?
>> The shop fans revolve. Evening sun
>> streams through the skylights.
>>
>> There’s no one at the Information desk -
>> oh yes, he’s back. What was the cafe
>> is swathed in black plastic
>> for renovations to be unveiled next month.
>>
>> Now she reads a section headed Color...
>> turns to: Eternal, Garden, Gift, God Allah Male -
>> each category must list possible names!
>> Goddess Female Ambrosia I see.
>>
>> Her finger is on Grace Female,
>> now: Handsome Healthy…
>> Her brown boots reach almost to her knee.
>> Enough - she’s up and away.
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