Agapanthus chime

Mornington Peninsula

your amethyst agapanthus and red flowering gums

flash the colours of summer days.

From Flinders, Cape Schanck and Boneo, Rosebud, McRae and Dromana

coral peach pinks and tangerine orange flowering gums

dazzle and shimmy her colours,

while agapanthus chime the hours of our radiant summer days.

 3^rd January 2012

Time for Port Phillip Bay

Its January 2^nd and 40 degrees.

On a bus to Sorrento as my vision arcs out through the window to the sparkling waters,

I notice my watch stopped on New Years day at 8.19pm.

And all I want to do is float horizontal in the aqua waters of Port Phillip Bay.

 2^nd January 2012

The Rabbit and the Drought

At 4pm an afternoon tea of greens.

The rabbit she munches

grass of this land

new green after rain,

the rains that

ended the drought.

Her kind they did come,

a few little rabbits

for sport in 1859

for an Englishman farmer

he be named Austin.

Just 24 rabbits

they came to Geelong

for play.

Her kind

they escaped

and multiplied like rabbits.

They munched and they chewed

A colony of rabbits

across this southland

and decimated

the land

the size of old Blighty.

Clearing the land and eating her host's food

She greedily ate

and bred.

Too late now for the introduced virus

Myxomatosis and Calicivurus

to do their deed.

Her rabbitting ways continue today.

The rabbit, so sweet.

So Beatrix Potter.

She pleasantly eats her greens on this day.

The land it is green

this day as well.

And distant the memory

Of drought.

 17^th December 2011

The Birds of Flinders

The seabird

the hang glider

the twin engine

all flew in formation at Flinders.

From ancient of days

the seabird has soared and glided

caught the jet streams

and winged her way

above the cliffs

and around the point at Flinders.

He holds the bar

and leaps off the cliff at Flinders.

holding the bar of the Da Vinci inspired glider

weaving and ducking and whooshing

he’s carried by air currents

high above the cliffs of Flinders.

The twin engine jets above

the glider

and seabird

is fully controlled

by diesel and throttle.

In straight lines it flies

above currents and jet streams

leaving behind

the sea bird and glider forever

away from the point at Flinders.

The sea bird and glider

thread through the air

hover and hold

beholding it all

as they glide by the sea

off the cliffs

and the point

at Flinders.

17th December 2011