TheBanyanTree: Indian Ocean Summer

[Sally Larwood]

Love it!

Sal 

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On 20/12/2012, at 7:28, Jim Miller <jim at maze.cc> wrote:

> Woofie,
> 
> Wonderful visual. I'm there in the window with you.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Woofess <Woofess at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>         Summer... that is wot is on me mind at the moment! I hate
>>         summer in Wozland! City and surburban idjits here love it, cuz
>>         they have no comprehension that heat and no rain means
>>         everything dries up and we are short of water for drinking.
>>         That's because they are cocooned in their ignorant city
>>         shells, where they think that incubating melanoma by squatting
>>         in the Indian Ocean is the pinnacle of living.
>> 
>>         Give me powdery snow and glittery icicles any day!
>> 
>>         Anyhows, today has been particularly crappy for various
>>         reasons, so I was distracting meself by looking at old files
>>         stored on me drives here and found this pome I writ when I
>>         still had a few synapses... hmmm.. where did all them synapses go?
>> 
>>         (Indian) Summer Irony
>>         --------------------
>> 
>>         Air con
>>         Thataps a busy jig,
>>         Self-important
>>         In its noisy bombast
>>         The alien sound
>>         In this still,
>>         Ancient, harsh
>>         And unforgiving land.
>> 
>>         Flowers,
>>         Heads bowed
>>         In abject worship
>>         Of the God-Sun.
>>         Lips parched,
>>         Tongues hanging out,
>>         Begging water,
>>         In limp defeat.
>> 
>>         Blue gum
>>         Arrays herself
>>         In dangling
>>         Question marks,
>>         That twirl languidly
>>         In the silently,
>>         Thrumming,
>>         Blister-hot air.
>> 
>>         Splendid Blue Wrens
>>         Huddle amongst
>>         The scanty ascii
>>         Of Blue Gum's vest,
>>         Not daring to speak.
>>         Begging asylum
>>          From the God-Sun's
>>         Far-seeking probes.
>> 
>>         Bare ground
>>         Brazenly,
>>         Shed of its habit,
>>         Shimmer-dances wildly.
>>         White tongues waving
>>         To lick the unwary
>>         Feet with poker darts
>>         Of hot ice pain.
>> 
>>         Prostrate hounds
>>         Share shade
>>         With lifeless cats
>>         Patiently awaiting
>>         The end to stillness
>>         By a zephyr
>>         Or the God-sun's
>>         Daily ministrations.
>> 
>>         Rushing meat ants,
>>         Groomed and glossy,
>>         Defy the God-Sun.
>>         Pause not to pray,
>>         But hurry faster
>>          From here to there,
>>         Oblivious to God-Sun's
>>         Omnipotent rays.
>> 
>>         And I?
>>         Sit by the window,
>>         Smiling inwardly,
>>         As I look
>>         Into my glass
>>         And see
>>         Only the glacier,
>>         Waiting within.
>> 
>>         Woof, hunting for more ice in the fridge...
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Woofie
>> 
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>> 
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