Enjoyed the sights, Max (but ‘winter’? too cold? I have to laugh…)
Doug
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 1:22 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Wedding-Filming near the Urban Garden-Plots
>
> Those cars so swish and old have to be
> wedding cars, and yes they are - there’s the bride
> billowing wide in white - a bridesmaid in pale green,
> clutching a bouquet, fusses with her train.
>
> Where’s the groom? easily overlooked,
> in his dark suit and smoothed-down hair.
> The bride must be her hairdresser’s pride,
> so lustrously spectacular her coiffure.
>
> There’s not just a photographer but
> a cameraman at work gesturing and
> bossing all present, even the chauffeurs.
> I walk away to enjoy other sights,
>
> pop-up garden-plots* above the car-park -
> heirloom seeds, worm farms, composting,
> kale-cult, pumpkin-harvesting -
> flourishing even in midwinter.
>
> Returning - what now? - lads on skateboards
> have taken over! they’re circling the bride
> on the traffic roundabout, as if of the event.
> Their pride as street performers blends
>
> with the crouching cameraman’s - so long
> as she has patience - bare arms in winter -
> they’re circling and ducking and jumping.
> Tomorrow’s August, renamed Sprinter.**
>
> *http://littleveggiepatchco.com.au/pages/pop-up-patch
> **https://blogs.csiro.au/ecos/five-seasons-in-australia-meet-sprinter-and-sprummer/
>
> Federation Square, Melbourne, July 2016
Douglas Barbour
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