Max - I can relate to that. The cattle have moved and we have 'silent'
nights - but always a creature is stirring somewhere ... I like it and think
is succeeds as a poem (as opposed to just a notation-style 'snap' is what I
mean).
On 15/08/07, cooee <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> In the Dark
>
>
> Waking in the night,
> listening: nothing,
> silence, no traffic,
>
> no weather even,
> not even snoring
> (now Iım awake),
>
> peace; then a far
> faint cry fading
> as of a small creature
> in the fangs of another.
>
>
>
> 6.30am, Wednesday 15 August 2007
>
> Max Richards
> Doncaster, Victoria
>
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Andrew
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