‘We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.’
Anais Nin
A Facebook friend (thanks Jennifer Mars) reminded me of this favorite quote, so I thought I’d share an unpublished example from a book I’m working on called “Tasting Life Twice”.
Yellow Days
Driving through Toodyay in late August
before Spring arrives officially
yellow makes me smile
Broome just opening
dotted with hives
flavouring the honey
and signs: ‘Beware Bees’
Field undulating through hills
no straight lines
sewn to follow dips
valleys and creeks
and around trees
Canola makes me smile
field waiting to be seeded
purple spikes take advantage
of a clear run to the sun
Far hills painted Ochre
as we enter another Shire
splash of blue Leschenaultia
Some giant brush has been busy
Soon Spring will show
its finished painting
England’s fields are patchworks
Here in Western Australia
we let the land and trees
decide the design
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2013
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