Under The Mallee Bough

  Of A Beautiful Woman. Francesco Bianchi Buonavita Mary Magdalene, Of A Beautiful Woman. Please wear the sky-blue scarf, my love, When we meet at our next assignation, The one I saw you clutch to your breast so dear, When first I saw you at the railway station, Let me feel again, a surge of delighted frustration, That impossible, urgent demand, of hollow desperation, Let me wonder on this mystery, of a man’s hunger of adoration, The troubled emotions, teetering thrill, of patient anticipation. Please wear the silken sky-blue scarf my love, That you wore on our first meet at the station, But this time it covering your tumbling locks of coral curl, That portrait frames visage of a cheerful, bonny girl, Enhancing so sweetly, this man’s gnawing hunger for adoration!

  The pioneer’s home. Old pioneer home This old house out here in the Murray Mallee where we live was built by the original pioneer settlers…The Kruger Family. It was built of limestone rocks gathered literally off the fields here, the mortar was of lime, gathered and burnt on this farm, the rafters and roof were of cut native pine trunks and branches and the thatching was of straw grown here on the land. So in effect, this house was not originally built from materials brought to the property, but was risen from the very Earth around…and will most probably, in due course, settle back into the Earth…truly an extension of pure nature. I have written this small testament to the integrity of the construct.                                   This House.    ...

  The Scriveners Review..vol 2…#1.     The Scriveners Review.      For the Murray Mallee and regions.                                Vol. 2 # 1.                   We know that mysterious spirits do twist and spin,              With eddys and currents, past river cliff and bend,                           To lazily tease a dreamer’s dreams                        From away upstream, t...