Bush Christmas
Tribune (Sydney) Tuesday 20 December 1955,
Stuffed with pudding to his gizzard
Uncle James let's out a snore,
Auntie Sue sprawls like a lizard
On the back verandah floor.
Grandpa Aub sits with a flagon
On the woodheap 'neath the gums,
'And he thinks he's seen a dragon –
Where the pigs are munching plums.
Cousin Val and Cousin Harry,
Cousin May and Cousin Fred,
Play the goat with Dulce and Larry
By the creek below the shed.
In the scrub the cows are drowsing,
Dogs are dreaming in the shade.
Fat and white, the mare is browsing
Cropping softly, blade by blade.
It is hot. The gnats are whirring.
Uncle Jamie rubs his knee
Sue," he whispers, "are you stirring?
It's near time to get the tea."
David Martin.
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