Kit Kelen #902 the shining - revised and expanded, following Jim's suggestion

902

the shining

there and back again

this is the weather

and wallabies come

they are lifted in mist

and hear the creek run

a few acres do

now charging

swampies splash ponding

they invent the first game

could do it every day

fence through light falls

then everything half rhymes

crooked in its coming still

you'll see the next door cattle

graze up on gum leaves

must be mistaken

then maidenhair

cabbage tree

ferns here to fish

I'm dry

now sight the dust inside

consider a fire for the night

drunk on acres

shrunk in the wash

the shining's in the bark

fresh lick

now charging

with heart leap thrills

of my own round track

and ho to the fruit ripe

last pumpkins still umbilical

but vines won't get away now

it's so many minutes past some hour or other

or could be leaning to

this is the weather

and wallabies come

they are lifted in mist

and hear the creek run

it's stretch forward

and all salute

gold falls over the land

nobody promised this

then a chimney takes up smoke

I'm here and I'd rather be here

takes smoke up chimney

nobody promised this

gold falls over the land

and all salute

it's stretch forward

hear the creek run

they are lifted in mist

and wallabies come

this is the weather

or could be leaning to

it's so many minutes past some hour or other

vines won't get away now

last pumpkins still umbilical

and ho to the fruit ripe

of my own round track

with heart leap thrills

now charging

fresh lick

the shining's in the bark

shrunk in the wash

drunk on acres

consider a fire for the night

now sight the dust inside

I'm dry

ferns here to fish

cabbage tree

then maidenhair

graze up on gum leaves

must be mistaken

you'll see the next door cattle

and crooked in its coming still

the everything half rhymes

fence through falls light

could every day do it

inventing the first game

swampies splash ponding

now charge

a few acres do

they are lifted in mist

and wallabies come 

 

this is the weather 

 

there and back again 

 

the shining