no people visible just arum lilies standing their
rolled white petals like jugs beaded with droplets of
early morning water outside this window which is not
mine and beyond that a chainlink fence and a mess of
winter herbage and beyond that the crooked tarmac of a
road which is not mine and on the other side of that a
blue wooden fence and a house half repaired in the
pinks of prepainting and next to that a squat brick
veneer house with an old red car parked in the carport
and behind that a tall cypress such as is found on the
Greek isles and behind that a sky of uncertain colour
presaging neither rain nor sunshine nor snow nor hail
nor sleet merely a colourless cold which may be mine
since I am breathing it in and out and in and out and
in
Alison Croggon
Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia 8.54am
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