ADJECTIVES
Adaptable, capable of changing mountains,
they can become lightning
if there is a lightning flash.
I like them—why not—?
for their verisimilitude,
their eagerness for attachment. Be careful!
Warns Basho: avoid adjectives of scale,
you will be happier. Exactly.
And “buds of snow” may be better than saying
the snow is new.
—Anne Coray
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appeared previously in Water-Stone Review