PUDDLE [1]
When you see a puddle that’s ruddy,
Don’t contemptuously call it “muddy”
Unless its near-by-buddy
Is clear.
It may be the “ruddy season,”
Or have another reason
Why to your eye it’s not pleasin’,
My dear.
– eab, 2/8/06
[1] Written after seeing a puddle walking on large flat acreage behind the Kingston church.