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- BRENDAN RYAN
Play Time
- A poor man’s Escher of
yellow pipes
- hump slides, ramps and split
level views
- becomes a business in an empty
warehouse.
- Lattes, magazines, footy
telecast on a widescreen
- fathers checking mobiles behind
the line of discontent.
- Some stray into battle to snap a
daughter
- descending the slide in a lotus
position.
- A boy rattles the bars of a
gate,
- runs off, then shakes the bars
again.
- It’s a 3-Up study, a
microcosm of our future –
- girls running amok with painted
cheeks
- a boy hiding beneath a plastic
dome
- somebody being thumped, shoved,
crawled over.
- Like a smartie face biscuit on a
plastic plate
- I’m paying for fun, respite
from the aimless weekend
- of picking up toys, when can
we watch television?
- The boy pulls at the gate.
Parents stare
- into the middle distance,
expressionless as time lost,
- as the noise approaches concert
level
- we watch the children play
watching each other,
- tears are necessary.
- BRENDAN RYAN'S latest collection
of poetry, A Tight Circle, was published by Whitmore Press in 2008. He lives in
Portarlington, Vic.
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