03-07-2020, 04:27 PM
The bush shucks off
Summer’s ravages; milkwort
Turns blue thorn-flowers
Towards the morning.
Elsewhere, in the cities,
People lurch through
Imagined wastelands.
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Note: ‘bush’ or ‘the bush’ refers here not to a shrub but to “a wooded area, but not dense forest. It is usually dry and nitrogen-poor soil, mostly grassless, with thin to thick woody shrubs and bushes, with some eucalypt trees.” (Wikipedia)
This is my V2 - after posting it rather too eagerly I decided a revision was in order.
Summer’s ravages; milkwort
Turns blue thorn-flowers
Towards the morning.
Elsewhere, in the cities,
People lurch through
Imagined wastelands.
—-
Note: ‘bush’ or ‘the bush’ refers here not to a shrub but to “a wooded area, but not dense forest. It is usually dry and nitrogen-poor soil, mostly grassless, with thin to thick woody shrubs and bushes, with some eucalypt trees.” (Wikipedia)
This is my V2 - after posting it rather too eagerly I decided a revision was in order.