cleaning cats' saucers before the toddler arrives
addressing envelopes at the kitchen table - sound of voices
jazzing up his task he squirts the girls with a hose
on their way to buy corncobs ... their best smiles
tilted on top of the tractor's exhaust, a rusty can
perched on the clothespole - a tui
one by one red-hot-pokers raided by birds & bees
scent of mown grass drifts through a window
produce entering the back door in plastic bags
taste of bitter plums with lots of sugar!
against a clay bank pale green ladder ferns growing taller
silver sheen of cleaned hubcaps - his new car