putterings, 596-594
₁
puttering by the sink, cleaning up some —
an odd thing to do,
something that could wait ₂ All her life
she had been hurrying and sputtering, as if
she had been born behind time and had been trying to catch up.
Now ₃ enough time for puttering;
enough thin books of ₄
sources :
- photograph, found in 32 pieces, Market Basket parking lot (Somerville, Massachusetts, ca 2000)
- W. B. Pescosolido, “Mother,” in Indiana Review (Fall 1993) / more at putterings 594
- Willa Sibley Cather, The Song of the Lark (1915) : 299 / more at putterings 596
- ex portrait of Robert Frost, in Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant her Fire Under the Andes : A Group of North American Portraits (1927) : 288 / more at putterings 595
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