By the Murray River

By the Murray is far from By the lake The Murray has its own sound as it meanders across gravel runs billabongs bends galore tonight will be cold so the fire is prepped 7 sheets of crumpled newspaper, splinters of pine dry eucalyptus leaves twigs and small branched neatly piled the cod are rising at dusk gently taking insects from the surface By the lake would be no sound at all