Good one, Andrew. Jack too fell into a red-checked mound at his mother's, I
believe. I like 'fallen flag of memory'.
Bill
On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 at 3:36 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It’s a strong breeze
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> so my Kerouac shirt falls
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> to a crumpled red-checked mound
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> on the green grass. A honey-eater
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> alights on the grevillea near the Hills Hoist –
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> I smile as I pick-up the fallen flag of memory –
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> so much excitement and admiration
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> in my teenage, years, so much sadness
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> when he died incomplete and still
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> at mother’s. Honey-eater flies off.
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> I hang the shirt
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> with its motley neighbours: no
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> business shirts or teacher’s garb.
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> Retired now, a happy septuagenarian
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> writing in late winter sunshine,
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> pen to paper like Jack wrote
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> furiously in his notebooks.
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> --
> Andrew
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