Kit Kelen #763 - Jilliby Castle

763

Jilliby Castle

for Phil and Rosemary

world otherwise ends

and here we are

waiting for this sun to cut out

I wasn't anywhere

I was dreaming

that's when the world is turned

otherwise it's all stars fixed

and steady on

the game's ahead

shoe-buk, ping pong

tennis in the distance

some kind of hominid best friend pony

after the dinosaurs

there's Sydney for horizon south

all forms of immortality

(pets buried hither and yon)

the cellar goes down

as we fill

but further and faster

here's a train of thought can't get too far

still somehow wallabies get in

the trees are all among us here

none of us is lazy

so we set off for an expedition

as if this were the Shire

chimney points from pizza

and other smoke to join the dots

their secret valley is an orchard now

I heard rain in the night

in the dream

the red tractor sat

under tarp

and in the green garden

morning's all afloat till

fruit leads to a discussion of breakfast

bound to find ourselves in the past here

all among us outdoors framed up

straighter and taller than when we came

there were always hammers, nails

a thicknesser

sometimes stump grinder was called into play

now there is a sawmill

all tremble and obey