Vale Rod May (farmer, activist, father, lover)

tall 

arching

man

hardened

by 

kind

farming

kind eyes

hands

of kindred 

soil

winded

by old land 

winds

and now —

by flippant car

~

pioneer 

against waste 

for life

now wasted

industrialism’s 

guilty comfort

interrupts 

another 

in late May

~

vale Rod May

kind

wind

eyes

man of the rows

of our nourishment

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Zephyr & Blackwood

On my forty-second birthday my second son Blackwood came into our world. One of the many pleasures this week has been watching Zeph and Woody get to know each other.

Zephyr is a geographical/gardening term for a gentle warm breeze or fructifying wind. In Greek mythology Zephyrus is the god of the west wind.

Blackwood is a wattle (Acacia melanoxylon) local to cool mountainous climates in Victoria and Tasmania, and thus a tree local to where we live. Blackwoods are soil builders and companion plants to eucalypts and native cherry (Exocarpos cupressiformis), named because of their intensely dark wood.

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