ecclectica

this land

by Mary Anne Lamy

this land
long cold winter nights
& dark frosty mornings
out my window view 
half-frozen white lumps of cattle
huddled in the bush around
dirty yellow mounds
two sets of tracks
cross the smooth white field
one small  one large
going north-east to some uknown end
looking out I imagine
an early wet spring
& a hot dry summer