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Jogging slower
under the flowering Gums
that sing with cicadas.

Receding train …
a file of headlights
from the car park.

Seen in Father’s eyes
so soon ! she leaves
her wedding.

She stoops to sip
the cool spring mouth
quenching another.

Warm kitchen
grandfather’s breakfast
in our hurried meals.

One tyre
cracks the full moon …
a frozen puddle.

First thaw
not the same brook crossing
as this morning.

Almost dodging
a shadow’s leap
from the foot bridge.

Salt and peppered
on the puddles
winter starlight.

Steel sink … cooling for us
a baked pie
beside its apple skins.