56. Kit Kelen's 'April in the breezes' - inviting Phyllis Perlstone into the garden

 

April in the breezes

 

after deluge too

 

a bellow for the faded cows

their curtains chewed to shreds

 

rub trunk

 

up late

sleep the extra Sunday hour

all eyes up for the extra blue

 

clamour away bright world

if you will

 

long morning, afternoon cut short

long evening, soon to bed

 

it’s three o’clock

four o’clock again

 

that veranda clock

we used to call Queensland

tells true now

 

but they’re singing the old calendar still

nobody told the birds