By Sarah Rauch
CLAMBAKE
clambake
specialized;
seaweed
beach
corn on the cob
potatoes
the clams
seaside
lobsters
clambake.
seaweed
beach
clambake
BACK YARD
charming hospitality, the tonowing
little house
the same width
twenty feet
flat,
the vines
illusion
glass doors
ground-floor rear
surrounding buildings
showing only the walls of vines
painted vista
early spring flowers
blooming
beds
vines
garden
home
afternoon late,
friends
drop
glass
iced tea
beverage.
attractive in town
A garden in which there is a permanent dance platform affords
perhaps the greatest pleasure that can be devised for summer evenings.
Littlehouses
built a permanent dancing floor, painted with four
coats of deep blue paint
Around the edge
which it looks like a pool.
Impromptu dances at the Littlehouses’ are as much the center of the
summer social life of their neighborhood as are the outdoor swimming
pools elsewhere.
to light the dance floor
all the actual preparation necessary when
their friends want to dance