We were down at Rosehill getting the car serviced so took our walk along the road beside Rosehill racecourse. I used to love this drive because it had various artworks (sticks, stones etc) set in red gravel. Time has not been kind, the red gravel has been taken over by weeds and the sticks now look like a rather sad building demolition or some such.
A poem for today
Fire-Stick Farming by Mark O'Connor. I like this poem and others in the anthology of the same name because they are poems about the Blue Mountains.
I know that poem by Mark O'Connor. I have it in his book "Poetry of the Mountains" alongside a photo by Ian Brown of fire-burned trunks of trees. I found this book in a second-hand book shop in Glenbrook and bought it when I first came to live in the Mountains. I love all the poems in this book which examine, in fine detail, the natural environment of the Mountains.
ReplyDeleteI have that anthology too and enjoyed it so much I also bought the later book of his selected poems.
DeleteI have been to Blackheath in the Blue Mountains a number of times. I was there one year just after some bushfires and the fire stopped just at the fenceline of the place we were staying at. A bit scary.
ReplyDeleteFires are a way of life in the mountains and scars and regrowth can be readily seen. But we have lived here for 25 years and fire has never come close so we remain optimistically cautious.
DeleteSuch a beautiful emotive poem.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you read and enjoyed this poem. As people rarely comment on the poetry selections I am never sure they are read but either way it is fun choosing something that matches the photo theme from my memory of poems enjoyed
DeleteIt makes me think of a natural sculpture taken back by nature 😊 The poem is excellent.
ReplyDeleteTaken back by nature. Not a bad thought.
DeleteI agree with Grace.
ReplyDeleteSeems everybody is not as tidy as me ... though looking at my garden you would not think so.
DeleteReally beautiful words - so apt. Thanks for sharing Joan :D)
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed them.
DeleteRegeneration and neglect. Interesting pairing.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that is what I should say about my garden ... it is regenerating.
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