a pitcher of Rumours

Picnic and Second Hand News


Beautiful
bountiful
plentiful
grapes,

With sandwiches and lemonade
On green china plates
On a pink tablecloth
Under tree branches

whose reaching, crafty, leafy finger-twigs point to
blue and yellow
sky, and sun --

While deep purple

cloud gathering

bubbles quietly, off in the west

and a train passes,
Blundering
rumbling
rolling
Back up from two centuries ago
and
My music's waiting. ...

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