Bridge

Image: Scotch College crews in training on the Yarra

 at Walmer Street Bridge, between Kew and Abbotsford.

 

good morning

merri creek bridge

taking the north-east to work

where the medium-rises meet the renos

where the wattles meet their reflections

minds suffused with corded sounds

delineate the rooftop bricolage

blue hills and grey-white clouds

all the senses and scents

where starts and ends meet

skin fresh from the shower

 

good afternoon

walmer street bridge

the vineyard dozing in colour

scotch rowers loud hailered to scull

a madcap cyclist testing the limits

of walkers’ personal space

curving concrete and rattling planks

consecutively past

apartments inscrutable as their residents

and the merry clangs of trams

 

good evening

montague street bridge

scalper of vans

hard halt to the blind

not so fast is your bypass byword

another week another wreck

danger low brow

nemesis of buses

how many warning signs are needed

for an accident waiting to happen

trasher of trucks flashing news

of the latest statistical mishap

idle pastime of innocent bystanders

reading the prang on their phone

with a good-humoured groan

 

good night

princes bridge

concert goers leaving mahler

convert goths nibbling snickers

midweek diners walking off shiraz

midlife donors talking ten the doz

sporting fans left thrilled or glum

sparring friends just out for the fun

buskers hulking drums lead and bass

late night lawyers lost in a case

condo dwellers their constitutional

tied besuiteds looking institutional

pizza scooters skirting the kerb

puzzled punters employing a verb

addled students with intense frown

uber stood-ups wanting out of town

olds hand-in-hand youth hand-in-hand

another tram and another tram