#1923 - day of the extra hour

 

1923

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7.iv.25

day of the extra hour again

 

April in the breezes

after deluge too

 

a bellow for the faded cows

their curtains chewed to shreds

 

rub trunk

 

up late

sleep the extra hour

 

clamour away bright world

if you will

 

all eyes up for the extra blue

 

long morning, afternoon cut short

long evening, soon to bed

 

it’s three o’clock again

it’s four o’clock again

 

that veranda clock

we used to call Queensland

tells true now

 

but they’re singing the old calendar still

nobody told the birds