Mandarins

The dilemma was whether there were more of ‘em 

than we could see - & therefore some weren’t ever 

accounted for; or th’ logical process used by yours 

truely in the first place to count ‘em was flawed - &  

I recalled one side of the tree showing many more 

than were apparent today; maybe the level of sun- 

light had something to do with it - shadows, angles 

of reflection, that paraphernalia-kine, & it had to be 

Contended with if no evidence of fruit-drop existed 

suggesting, hey, there - ground’s littered with fallen 

mandarins: only one such was in corroboration. It’s 

a hard road to accept erstwhile counting never had 

agreed any estimates that came near to what we’d 

reckon to be seeing - but then, any more than ten 

Would be a palatial incidence of infinite indolence 

© 7 June 2017, I. D. Carswell