Monday, December 26, 2005

Snap on Christmas Day

6.15am
i begin the festivities
by watering the lawn
and the two single trees
that stand two metres tall
and five metres apart
their leafy round heads
dripping like mops

a wattlebird flies in
and shakes her body
among the leaves
bathes with gusto
when in flies her would-be lover
so she flies to
the other green mop

both trees now alive
a bird each
and not a partridge
or a pear tree
in sight

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