It is a little rainy here today, breezy on the cool side. The kind of day you want to curl up on the couch with a book and a cup of mint tea, maybe with an oatmeal cookie or two. K and I went to the library last night and I got out two books – a newer Maeve Binchy, and one called “Something Dangerous” that was thick, with small type, and looked perfectly escapist – when I’ll read them, I don’t know but I’m thinkin’ today would have been a perfect day to start, if that darn work didn’t get in the way.
I picked this poem because it seemed wonderfully whimsical, and whimsy is good thing on a Friday afternoon:
Weather
By Eve Merriam
Dot a dot dot dot a dot dot
Spotting the windowpane.
Spack a spack speck flick a flack fleck
Freckling the windowpane.
A spatter a scatter a wet cat a clatter
A splatter a rumble outside.
Umbrella umbrella umbrella umbrella
Bumbershoot barrel of rain.
Slosh a galosh slosh a galosh
Slither and slather a glide
A puddle a jump a puddle a jump
A puddle a jump puddle splosh
A juddle a pump a luddle a dump
A pudmuddle jump in and slide!
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