Notes from a train
In the Out,
The river bed stout
Dry and dry again
Never fall the rains
On the potbellied plain
Of the crumbling green of tufted grasses
The crinkling leaves of trees in copses
The sapphire blue of the infinite sky
Against the dark green of the mountains
The peppered fields peopled by sheep
That peep from a green sea like fish out the
deep
And forests, oh forests of spectacular stun
That reach to keep the splendid sun
And jack in the Marsh, rabbit on the hop
The kangaroo is filibustered in the election
of the sun
Wallabies hid in the wheat
Spray of yellow rape at his feet
In the afternoon light
That is a delight
Upon the mottled plain
The mountainous lumps
Are stony stumps
Which lie in timeless stages for ages not in
vain
The stirring rills which catch and spill
In pearly, swirly swills
Where swallows swoon
And boys fish with a loom
From their mother’s knitting room
