Max. thanks for the versified response. Always a pleasure to speak in
re-verse. I hope your garden blossoms at the mere mention of rain. Perhaps
some handy penetrator in preparation ...
2009/2/25 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
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> > unexpected rain
> > blackens the roads,
> > drivers cautious
> > on corners and bends.
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> > here the mulch
> > darkens as the sky,
> > a flock of cockatoos
> > fly by -
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> > daylight dampens
> > as quick goes slow.
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> > i relax - a novel
> > or a nap? such
> > are the joys of
> > the partially employed.
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> Aftermath
>
> Perth's raincloud
> continued eastward
> at a high altitude
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> confirmed dourly
> the Nullarbor's
> nullarborness
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> added to withering
> Adelaide's
> abstention from rain
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> weakened over the Western
> District by watering
> the windbreaks of Warrnambool
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> reached Melbourne
> at long last silently
> moistening with a lick
>
> and a broken promise
> my dying suburban
> postage-stamp garden.
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> Max Richards
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