Pleasant to hear about the Wombat and the Wonga Max!
(Wonga is also the name of the house I live in).
I do very much like the line: midnight suicide mudguard denter
Brian
--- On Wed, 28/10/09, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Yarra snap
To: [log in to unmask]
Received: Wednesday, 28 October, 2009, 8:00 AM
Yarra Snap
A spring morning full-on –
in Wonga Park, outside Melbourne,
a short walk from the Reserve entry
(a long one’d be beyond me) –
trees filtering sunlight overhead,
river, full of itself, flashing its bright rapids.
One slow hot afternoon I kayaked
from here downstream to Jumping Creek,
my paddle resting idly on my knees,
acquiring sunburn and a neck-crick
from craning to see the river-gum forks
where koalas snoozed after gum-leaf snacks.
My path ahead’s well-trodden, and what’s that? –
dark brown, almost spherical – wombat,
medium small, looking in my direction,
as nonplussed surely as I am.
It shambles off under the riverside timber –
soft soil there for any number
of wombat-dugouts. Now the track
is all my own – amble back,
gingerly managing between eyesight
and memory, these images of wombat
(linked to others – fence wrecker,
midnight suicide mudguard denter...).
The rapids chuckle and flicker.
Max Richards
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