Good to see you back on Wednesdays, Max.
But so many deaths & resurrections: a lot to take in in one week, let
alone one life!
Doug
On 12-Apr-06, at 12:25 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> Ruffey Lake Park, April 10
>
> After the grey day of rain passes
> the creek soon subsides again.
> The bank grasses lie shining
> smoothly groomed all one way.
> Downstream the lake, refreshed,
> seems to have filled slightly.
> I and my dogs inhale deeply,
> note the ducks, exhale lightly.
> Magpie cadences share
> the fresh air waves
> with kookaburras'
> angular signatures.
>
> Jesus with his annual Passion
> came this way yesterday,
> Palm Sunday.
> I saw from my front door
> the crimson-cloaked centurion
> and his squad march down.
> The trial went on, I know,
> in the old quarry which
> stands in for Jerusalem.
>
> My pup finds droppings
> worth nibbling, no doubt a donkey's.
> I saw the Crucifixion along there
> one year, and, a few minutes later,
> the Resurrection nearby
> next to the old bunya-bunya pine.
> Good Friday they do it all again.
> I may go, leaving the dogs at home.
>
> Max Richards
> Doncaster, Victoria
>
> Monday 10/Wednesday 12 April 2006
>
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