The tone works, Max, & the address. Cool & collected (but
underneath)....
Doug
On 18-Nov-09, at 9:55 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> In South Australia visit
> Victor Harbor, park under one
> of the many Norfolk pines
> each with its bronze plaque naming
> a dead Great War soldier.
>
> Walk to the causeway that
> crosses to Granite Island.
> Note the horse-tram times: last
> from island, 4.30.
>
> Watch: tiny, heading this way,
> shaping large as slow draught-horse
> and double-decker tram
> piled with happy tourists.
>
> Now upon us, all cameras busy.
> Clydesdale, vast feet and head,
> serene and powerful.
> So large a creature, submissive
> to so small a man.
>
> Max Richards, on holiday
>
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