Anomalies
Apple blossom in autumn?! –
so much is out of kilter –
we were anticipating
bare-limbed winter.
February’s scorchers
must have so disconcerted
the long-suffering lingerers
in this former orchard
the showers of April in the south
have pierced them to the root.
Blooming – now! – climate change?
something deeply disordered.
This long frond I’ve brought home
sports a dozen fresh flowers –
and two scorched-dead leaves from those
dire weeks before the showers,
when the winds from inland turned sparks
to horizon-wide fire-fronts leaving as ash
human remains and animals, townships,
farms, vineyards, wilderness parks –
now, with rain, sprouting shoots from black trunks.
Max Richards
Doncaster Vic
Wednesday 15 April 2009
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