BUILDING A BOWER

by
Wordmate
© 11/21/07

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"Gon, who featured in my short story, Perfecting the Art, needs to build a bower to shelter him while he perfects the art of creating crop circles. In this poem he describes by numbers how he does it. After all, you never know when you’ll need to make one...."

Seven shades of foliage
Make my hiding-place:
A shelter from the elements
And pricking, prying eyes.
Six strands of living branches
Curve to make the frame;
Five lengths of dead wood
Support the arching roof.
Four sheaves of twigs and reeds
Are woven in and out;
Three times twisted round and through,
Their ends are neatly tied.
Two gleaming eyes can see you
But yours cannot see me
Crouching on the one good floor
Of seven mossy layers....


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