Thanks, Pat Tap. But it has yet to arrive.
On 30/01/2013, at 8:10 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Bill hold on I'm sending some rain P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 29 January 2013 20:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Nevergreen
>
> Enough already of this bloody drought
> undeclared yet but have no doubts;
> the dry is in, the rain is out.
>
> On former grass, only cracks.
> Nightly hosing can't turn the attack.
> Everything once lush, now moisture lacks.
>
> Stone fruit shrivels : poor plums and nectarines
> O Great Tap Turner, must you be so mean?
> Perpetual dry is plain obscene.
>
> What will it take to hear gutters awash?
> to wear again, a mackintosh?
> Vale S P L O S H.
>
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