34-37 Degrees South: Easy reading version
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Umbrella Alerts: excerpts<br />
from a 2022 La Niña tanka diary<br />
Amelia Fielden<br />
February 9<br />
dismal Monday<br />
this coastal La Niña<br />
hovering<br />
even the seagulls<br />
complain of the rain<br />
February 11 blurred ship-shapes<br />
glide along the pencil line<br />
between dim sky<br />
and gunmetal ocean—<br />
where is summer hiding<br />
February 24 a flotilla<br />
of pelicans sailing<br />
the golf course,<br />
sodden lorikeets<br />
huddling on my balcony<br />
March 5<br />
March 9<br />
April 8<br />
watched<br />
through salted windows, the sea<br />
heaves grey and white<br />
while I hunker down<br />
in a blue armchair<br />
my little dog<br />
walks diagonally<br />
ears flapping<br />
in the howling wind<br />
drenched streets start to dry<br />
a ‘rain bomb’<br />
explodes over the ’gong,<br />
I google<br />
instructions on how to<br />
construct an ark<br />
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