i have begun my time
in early older age
writing recklessly
but stubbornly
from my memory
often three times weekly
sharing obligatorily
with close friends
who regularly confirm links
with those times:
today i sojourned across
the range to Strath
carrying papers for edit
and realised
these country roads
once the principal domain
of our primary producers
and sometime Sunday adventurers
are now the property
of truckies, couriers and
the mobile aged:
mixed observations from
the interior of my vehicle
witnessed local folk
battening down and sheltering
as numbers of tree-changers
increase exponentially,
suburbanizing Meadows

First published in Frances Poetry Anthology 2019, edited by Edie Eicas and David Harris a coproduction with Friendly Street Poets