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George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-07-31 2:13 p.m., W-Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>> July, by Robert F. Skillings
>>
>>> A very pleasant mo[n]th is this
>>>      To be in a country town.
>>> The sunlight doth the foliage kiss
>>> [...]
>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/07/july-robert-f-skillings.html
>>
>>
>> "Pleasant mouth"?
>>
>> A typo or a Edmund Spenser style spelling?

> Heh! I'd say it's a typo, though it is an interesting image, when
> combined with "kiss" in L3. So I've changed it to "month" on the blog,
> and changed it everywhere it's promoted on the web.

> Sadly, while it's probably a typo, it's on all the online copies I've
> seen -- I've looked at 3, and had to make decide which one to use (as
> they vary in whether or not they indent the lines). Yet all of them have
> "mouth". And I think I understand why. I must have read the poem 6
> times, and each time I read "month" -- and I expect that everyone else
> who put it on their site did the same.

> The other problem was that there's no authoritative source for the text
> online, just websites that appear to have simply c&p'd each other. I
> suspect that it's from one of the two anthologies Skillings's son says
> he had poems published in, but I haven't been able to find either. If it
> was typed in from a print book, that could explain the appearance of the
> "mouth."

> Thanks for bringing that to my attention here. There is a silver lining,
> when I or a reader catches an error like that: unlike the run of the
> mill poetry site, it gets corrected. So I'd say, provisionally, that
> unlike those other sites, PPB is a place to find a correct version of
> the poem.

Again, it does seem to be a typo, and should be corrected, until further information surfaces.