It's summer here, but snow is falling in other parts of the world - though not always very lightly!
For my Tuesday Poem this week I chose a poem from Flap: The Chook Book 2 written by Barbara McCartney, one of my co-authors of this book. It was previously published in North and South magazine.
Flap can be purchased on line from the Madras Cafe Bookshop. I earlier wrote about how this small bookshop had to close its doors. Fortunately it has found new premises, and is also still operating its website, so I am happy to support a small business by putting sales of our book through their website.
snow falls lightly
a bleak back country road
we're confronted by two bulls
and further on
a posse of steers giving the cockie a hard time
wanders over, stands like John Wayne -
a sarcastic bastard, tonnes of cheek
keen-eyed dogs milling
one of the worst five jobs in the world
he says - reckons sheep worse than cattle
- more dogmatic - but women -
wear you down to worm tucker -
reckon no man's perfect 'til he's under their thumb
yeah - women - love the outdoors
'til winter chucks a few curve balls -
they scuttle back to town
now the wind's changed, the rain horizontal
time to call it a day.
we turn back
he plods on with his dogs
....
through all the restless night
snow falls lightly
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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2 comments:
Catherine--this is definitely one of my favourites from Barbara's section of Flap; she really catches something of the Kiwi 'vernacular' with several different aspects of the poem ...
I, too, love the colloquial tone of this poem, Catherine. It sings of our heritage. I will check out the bookshop online - great to hear that it is still up and running!
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