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Memento mori

Lidcombe Poesy

Lidcombe

Lidcombe   A line of evergreen trees, a khaki green stripe across a grey flannel sky,   marches up the rise scattering headstones and sarcophagi   to the left and right.     © The Grumpy Old Dilettante, 2021
September 22, 2021
The Assault Poesy

The Assault

The Assault The towers of the ‘Imperial’ city sat squat and quiet. Those stones did not cry out - no way! Imperial flags, corpuscle-red and eye-socket black, cracked like whips in the breeze, but did not wave a greeting -…
September 19, 2021
Parramatta Poesy

Parramatta

Parramatta   Encircled cemetery reminds the city of earthly and eternal things (echoes of Macau).   Calcium rich soil draws everything, and everyone, to itself - with menacing, libertine, Georgian lust.   And yet it repels lunch-time boarders, hurling them…
September 19, 2021