Almanac Roadtrips: Tea in Taree

 

a Summer Drive… a few words I put together  a year ago..

 

Under a southern sky
A Monash dawn
brightens a freeway, long

 

On a Summer day

 

Warm
Pausing
For a Holbrook feast, of course

 

Diesel

 

And wine gums
Bacon, eggs,
a milkshake too, Please

 

Keep on going

 

Heading north it goes
M31, M7, A2, A240,
clear skies,
turning murky.

 

And it’s spitting

 

With a rain delay, too
upon the sticky wipers
smearing the Land Rover’s wind shield

 

Cllkkkkkclkkk.

 

Slow down

 

A wide load ahead
somewhere near Jugiong, Gundagai or Yass
Goulburn or Campbelltown

 

Sydney, perhaps.

 

Siri,
She says
‘From the second lane, Veer left
Take the second exit’

 

Straight ahead
Take the next exit for a place to stay
is that Gosford or Taree

 

The Alabaster, or
The Midlands
Or the In-Town Motor Inn

 

for the deluxe suite
and dinner at Sailo’s
the club over the road

 

“Hey Mum, yer must tell yer young fella te take his hat off”

 

Tracey, she said that sternly and all managerial….

 

“And step away from the bar!”

 

Far out, C’mon…

 

He just wants sauce

 

And a raspberry lemonade

 

and Whiting fillets, crumbed,
but they are not available

 

or Battered fish,

 

They’re available
with chips and salad

 

And a beer, of course

 

And Oysters Mornay

 

“I’ll have them- A dozen, please.”

 

Please, ‘cos it’s been so long.

 

A Manning river dusk
And tea in Taree.

 

(image: Road to Taree, iPad Sketch, 2019, KB)

 

 

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