What can I have meant?
The vi?
A saved note on my iPad
The view?
The vicissitudes of living in a tourist town
as I do
The vinegar?
A shopping list beginning?
Surely not tapped on screen
Vika and Linda Bull tickets?
No, Daylesford’s Wellness Festival
has collapsed. And besides, The Vika?
Vicroads rego online?
Nah, did that a couple of months ago
Virgin flight? No, no holiday in the offing
Vision Australia? Searching for something
for Mum, near-blind now. But again,
not The Vision Australia
Narrowing down, the v
is lower case
The victory, The vice?
Clearly incomplete, why
did I stop typing?
Ah, I have it
Monday afternoon,
seeking the Gwen Harwood poem
with the blackbird fretting
thumbing my copy
of Selected Poems, drawing a blank
until it falls open on the broken spine
and there it is.
It is dusk, and cold. I kneel to pick
The violets.
bw
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