I kinda like this. It gathers momentum as it goes. Like the floodwaters, I
guess.
Janet (high and dry in Perth)
On 26 January 2011 08:46, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Snaps from our Weekend
>
>
> The Newstead bridge over the Loddon
> had sandbags beside it from last week.
>
> The floods had moved north
> by the time we turned up -
>
> everywhere on fences and signposts,
> tawny flotsam marked the flood level.
>
> Newstead was busy - pub, stores,
> Mechanics Hall and café.
>
> Music all weekend, under canvas,
> in churches, on the streets.
>
> The Morris dancers practiced
> handy to the pub. Old dogs guarded
>
> the trays of old farm trucks.
> 'Philip Thomas, wire tamer' displayed
>
> his art outside the grocer's shop.
> Dark red rusty wire twisted into curves
>
> spirals treble clefs animals and fish.
> See him at work, chat him up. He predicts
>
> another huge 'weather event' - soon.
>
> *
>
> His wife Gretel breastfed their infant
> nearby. She said we must bring our pup
> (ten-month Labrador), which she had bred,
> to their property for a reunion with the mother -
> and grandmother - and the latest pup.
>
> We drove behind her on a dirt track
> where water had cut them off for days.
>
> Then a festival of dog antics
> as yellow Labs claimed kin - rolled
> and ran and wore each other out.
>
> *
>
> In the Uniting Church we recovered
> sprawling at the back where the dog
> wouldn't spoil the concert.
> Harpist and fiddler played modest
> Scottish and Irish melodies.
>
> Michael Kennedy sang to his guitar
> his own songs, one on Francis of Assisi,
> one on the child graves at Pennyweight Hill
> from the gold rush years near Castlemaine.
> His listeners teared up.
>
>
>
> Max Richards
>
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