Another lawn
Cut like a soldier’s crop
With box hedge fences
Another row
Of homeless daffodils
Frown at the sky
In the shadow of ghost gums
She lifts the blinds and sees me
See her wipe the tears
From her eyes
Another housewife
Another secret
Another day to be grateful for
Michael Koenig (South Australia)
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