I enjoyed the whole story, Max, but do feel that the meat of it happens
at the end, where story rises to something more, imagistic & outside of
home ( a bit unheimlisch?).
Doug
On 30-Jan-07, at 7:29 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Chasing a Comet
>
> Why were people standing in the dark
> in the middle of the cricket oval?
>
> McNaught's Comet held their gaze,
> its head pushed towards the horizon
>
> where the sun had sunk, the tail
> spread up and out, as if in falling
>
> the comet had unzipped the dark
> denim fabric of the sky.
>
>
> Max Richards,
> Doncaster Victoria
>
> Wednesday 31 January 2007
>
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