Donkey Snaps
'Please Do Not Feed
DONKEYS
It Makes Them Bite and Fight'
So we only snapped them, all seven
in a corner of their big dry paddock.
All ages, some skeletal, some tubby,
some brown, some grey, most with a slender
cross along back and down shoulders
which reminds some of us of Palm Sunday.
Their owner strolled down in her sunfrock.
Would you like to be introduced to them all by name?
We started with the handsomest, who went all
round the Anglican Church last Palm Sunday.
Two tubby ones are yes pregnant.
By - ? That little runt of a donkey,
behind all our backs... no, baby donkeys
will not be given away or even sold.
And *her* name is Alison. She had donkeys in England
after seeing how they are treated in Morocco,
standing fully loaded in the sun for hours.
Began rescuing them in Sydney, and now
has moved to Victoria - Barkers Creek.
Yes, she knows 'The Donkey' by G.K.Chesterton.
It's in all the donkey books. I said I sang
it once at a school concert - she didn't ask to hear it.
The weedy male donkey put me in mind of D.H.Lawrence
as if he'd impregnated a couple of Friedas.
Kept this to myself. They all had great hairy
swivelling ears and wanted their noses rubbed.
Max Richards
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