December
is a furnace when drops fall on sidepath leaf-scattered concrete and thuds
sound on wattle-tousled wavy laserlite and wind lifts leafy overhead giants and
buckets fill with speckling trickling increase and gutters overflow rapid water
strings and porches turn awash with whitest rain and thunder heavies over high
hill Bundoora and downpipes burst fountains upward collision and gardens grow
into untended water-raging pools and the Crescent is a speeding creekbed and
storm tests root structure of great trees and deluge is roaring mountain cloud
sound and water breaks through huddled shed’s weak points and unexpected
inundations magnify underlays and…
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