Food for Free: Melbourne May 2002

for fair on a fortnight
our favourite fig tree
has furnished a feeding frenzy
for flocks of feathered filchers

Charlie Nelson

at noon and night they came
those naughty nibbling nobs
to nick the nicest nectar
to nest, to nip and to natter

Gail Thomson

what fun you have had with alliteration,
methinks your verbal dance a veritable vocation!
to see those bats in their darkly derivations,
'tis almost as if life has a loving levitation,
and how each flight takes on such fanciful fucundity,
as if done daily events were daring diurnity
i must turn my brushes to attempt an accurate assimilation,
for such scenes are surely a sensual crescendo of sublimety!

Malcolm Ross

photo by Charlie Nelson

 

painting by Malcolm Ross

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ps - us feral fellows had our fill of figs for free too!