I like this a lot, Max. But then I'm always lured by nicely done WCW
imitations/references. Thanks.
Árni
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Árni Ibsen
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on 7/29/03 11:20 PM, cooee at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Red Wheelbarrow
>
>
> So much depended on
> my neighbour’s red wheelbarrow
>
> while I shifted this winter’s
> delivery of split redgum
>
> from the side gate where it glowed
> in the sun, through the garden
>
> round our weatherboard house
> to the dark side
>
> where the plumbing is
> and the gas fittings,
>
> there to stack it, hard up
> against the paling fence.
>
> As much depended on
> my sixty-six year old
>
> muscles and grip
> on the red wooden handles
>
> and eye to aim us just
> between the narrow gateway
>
> reversing by the kennel
> where I stow twigs for kindling
>
> on past the dry-stone wall
> edging – one false move
>
> and stones get dislodged.
> False moves there were,
>
> followed by quick-fix kicks.
> Much depended on
>
> my stout walking shoes
> my tracksuit steaming up
>
> my care to avoid splinters
> in my bare hands.
>
> While wife and dog watched
> from bed! Much depended
>
> on my patience
> my tolerance
>
> and the tea and cake
> she soon called me in for.
>
> A hundred dollars’ worth of wood!
> forty or fifty fires maybe –
>
> plus the work-glow lit in me.
>
>
> - Max Richards at Cooee, North Balwyn, Melbourne
> 8.30am, Wednesday but a weekend snap...
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