TheBanyanTree: BLACK CROW

[Peter Macinnis]

On 14/10/2011 06:13, Julie Anna Teague wrote:
> Nice!  Tis the season for these great fall poem.

For some of us, perhaps.  Here in Sydney, the koels (extremely noisy and 
nocturnally thuggishly active cuckoos) have arrived, the best of the 
wildflowers are setting their seed, and in a fortnight or so, the first 
jacarandas will bloom.  The first warm evening after that, we will hear 
the shrilling of cicadas.

I have yet to hear any politician declaring that the bush is a 
tinderbox, but all the other signs of summer are now in place.

Nice fallish poems, all the same.  They call to mind a visit to Oxford 
Mississippi, a few years back.  I can date it because all the staff at 
Denver airport as I flew home were in Halloween make-up, but just before 
I left Ole Miss, I saw three men with leaf-blowers, herding the leaves 
as the pups of working dogs here might drive sheep before them.

Seasons,  Another thing that separates us from those curious people on 
the other side of the equator.

hooroo

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