Albany in April

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From hills and orchard row to the Queen’s chain
  plume the toetoe, the ponga’s silver gild -
in planted grove and fertile dairy plain
  droved is the fatted calf and the earth tilled.
White breasted native wood pigeons cooing
  leap bearing fruits and leaves to feed among,
and up above in splendid chorus wing
  the tui, bellbird, and grey warbler song.
O’ to see that autumn sun’s gentle fade 
  on the dew shine of fallen crown of leaves,
and macrocarpas betwixt light and shade
  when April rains fall its bowers and eaves.
Soon the solstice will a changing invoke
and idle woodfired stovepipes fill with smoke.


               Written: April 1996

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