putterings, 564-560
The puttering bird pretends to be only passing by,
puttering about at the water’s edge where an occasional wave
would the accidental breaking of, her capacity for spilling
words not to be found in the dictionary, a pile of,
as he looks at a piece of linoleum, puttering around with some
idea that has a fallacy in it — the fuel question;
the tire problem; the problem of traction in snow;
all haste the problem of the incoming tide.
sources :
- “An Old-Fashioned Nurse,” in Lippincott’s Magazine (May 1881) : 521-522 / more at putterings 564
- Albert L. Clough, “The Development of the Commercial Gasoline Automobile,” in The Horseless Age (February 4, 1903) : 192-194 (193) / more at putterings 563
- Joshua Hren, Blue Walls Falling Down (2024) : 147 / more at putterings 562
- “To Sell More, Learn More about the Goods you Sell; A Lesson in Linoleum,” in Southern Furniture Journal (High Point, North Carolina; August 1928) : 57-59 (57) / more at putterings 561
- Mollie Amos Polk, “The Curative Power of Swimming,” in The Forecast (October 1926) : 214-216 (216) / more at putterings 560