I be getting me a piece of wild land with an angry creek, a drunk duck and a paranoid chook with a gully of kawakawa and a knob of oak sprawled out all bent and dripping lichen with kunekune pigs beer barrel fat for acorn bacon and winter ham.
I be getting me a sage grove for meditation and a mad place for faeries, a place to make music and listen to the stars and night things.
I be getting me a forge with a beat up smith in a large leather apron.
I be getting me a cave with a long long cave girl with a short fur wrap and stockings. The ones with seams up the back. Or thigh high ugg boots.
I be getting me a log fire and a coppice of ash and oak, and totara spreading out on to the ryegrass weed.
I be getting me a piece of land to make a common so no devil corporate or daemon child can sell it to the Man. The Man be not allowed.
I be getting me a place where we can grow and eat and play and live and laugh and love and die.
I be getting a place to listen without a sound. And sigh.
Chris Perley
August 2013
Queen of the Garden – Linda Carter Holman
Hi Chris You seem to be bombarding your good friends with old blogs. Has your PC caught a virus??
Regards Peter
Just sorting the effing mess out. Hope you’re well. Missed you at NZIF conf. Now bugger off.
Old…? First time I’ve seen it. It is terrific. It will only ever be old when there’s no need to say it to the people we live among.
Brian
Thanks Brian. Read your ‘In the nineties’ out at a dinner party. Very apt and moving to us. Particularly to partner Viv and me because it resonates so strongly. A night of music and poetry.
Chris my friendâ¦neat poemsâ¦I read na denjoyed them all
Cheers
Mark
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cjkperley posted: “I be getting me a piece of wild land with an angry creek, a drunk duck and a paranoid chook with a gully of kawakawa and a knob of oak sprawled out all bent and dripping lichen with kunekune pigs beer barrel fat for acorn bacon and winter ham. I be getti”
Love this one!!
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