Cirrus@Austlit

'May

'Using a pickaxe and shovel, I loosen and pull weeds from around the base of the concrete water tank. The earth is a brownish yellow clay, clumpy, difficult. We’ve weeded old flower beds and resurrected pathways at our new dwelling, an old 1930s farmhouse in the Strzelecki Ranges, but this patch seems untended, growing paddock grass and weeds. The wheelbarrow grows weighty with clods of earth sticky, wet and heavy clinging to the roots of tussock grasses, thistles and kikuyu.'  (Introduction)