a true snapshot --
On 7/19/05, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Walking home from my mechanic's workshop
> 105 minutes in the warming winter sun
> banana and mandarine for breakfast
> bottle of water 'with a squeeze of lemon'
>
> so many houses I've never seen
> so much individual lacework
> newly painted on verandahs
> mothers pushing prams walking toddlers
> old men with scarves tight
> around their necks
>
> by the Phoenix Language Academy
> clusters of funloving Asian students
> racing across against the traffic
>
> the Redemptorist Monastery
> throws a long shadow
> next door African Funk Dancing
> (I imagine their cassocks
> whirling in a Dervish dance)
>
> smells of blood'n'bone from
> well-clipped gardens
>
> waft of cooking from Han's Cafe
>
> surly girl at the supermarket
> slams my water drink through
> disparagingly (huh, only one item)
>
> two ducks waddle up to see me
> from the neighbourhood lake
> one shits the other
> walks in it
>
> my blood pumping my eyes clear
>
> this afternoon 3.15 pm
> I'll walk back again
>
>
> Andrew
> Mt Lawley
> noon 20 July 2005
>
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