Susan Hawthorne #127 as for the last few days (responding to Lizz Murphy)

it started on the weekend

writing an opinion piece

to protect Australian writers

and publishers

so two days later I am tweeting

more than ever before

I hate Twitter except

as a forum for haiku

but haiku it was not

in between the fellows

who were meant to come at 10 am

with preparations for laying

new turf did not arrive

so after an early lunch

I'm at a webinar about legal matters

at 1 pm the turf layers arrive and I'm off

first the stones then the topsoil

breaking lumps in topsoil

is like rubbing butter through

flour to make pastry

I've also been tropical gardening

cutting the branches from geisha girls

cutting the overgrown palm fronds

pulling nut grass and mimosa weed

then the turf arrives it's like laying

carpet tiles    wheel the turf tiles

to their spot open out and place

again and again and again

water the turf so it grows

next morning we are scraping mulch

from the back a ute raking it into position

who says life in the tropics is laid back?

I forgot to mention finalising

the print-ready pages for a new book

talking to festival organisers

writing poems for this blog