Anna Couani #174 Harvest Moon 2

learning Harvest Moon again

those chords of

Neil Young’s signature tune

easy shuffle dance

a kind of dad thing

someone else’s dad that is

my father expert at smoking

smoking as a diagnostic tool

anti-dance

sitting squatting on a riverbank

watching adventurous kids

flying out over the river on a rope

he could talk

in a negative kind of way

revealing the hidden truths

the danger of snags in the river

big dark green waters flowing quickly

clear shallow creeks with terracotta-coloured rocks

and smooth collectible rocks

some black

sunshine

and reflections of tall gums

in standing pools

but the shock of walking into a river

like the Clarence in Grafton

like the Hacking in The Royal National Park

feeling long grass around your legs

familiar in lukewarm water