Window

The sky is in turmoil, threatening

In front of the store a tall gum tree invaded

by a flock of white cockatoos

Crows fleeing from one roof top to the next

Court yard, garden beds still damp

from overnight downpour

Cypress trees retaining their golden colour

on outer branches

Crawling lasiandra displays new autumn shoots

Aiming towards native rhododendron

and a year old apricot tree

Tiny moss grass needles struggle to recover

remembering dry spell that lasted

entire summer season

In this short span Boston ivy is

disrobed of its leaves

Left deserted on patio pavers,

still displaying brilliant colours

Concrete statues of a boy and a girl stand silent

Dandenong hills shrouded in clouds

In the distance the sigh and smell,

a cold autumn rain returning

Change always arrives with

a blustering wind sweeping ,

pushing the sun aside

Leaving a mantle of greyness,

once its strength subsides

Today , again I watch angry heavens

through a different window and remember

Every garden from the past

where I left a thousand irretrievable pieces

of my soul

(C)Copyright Dinka Bednjacic

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