January 16 - The Park
Three day cut grass, littered with mottled, moth-eaten gum leaves turning from grass green to olive to patchy tan under the summer sun. The remnants of cut grass, clumped and drying. Scents of fresh compost.
January 17 - Avocado
The avocado with blackish brown rough crinkling skin, sliced vertically open around its round wood-like stone, reveals creamy flesh tinged pale lemon but mostly brown.
January 18 - Heart Art
At the bottom of my latte glass, the misshapen foamy heart art, swallowed smiling.
January 19 - The Sky
The thin blue sky, so high, so high.
January 20 - The Devonshire Tea
On a round white plate, two lemonade scones, warm, fluffy, imperfectly round, dusted with sweet icing sugar.
To the right, home-made conserve, dark red, strewn with seeds and shrunken strawberries, sits plump in a small white round ceramic dish.
To the left, double cream, thick, off-white, spiralling to a flattened peak, dolloped in an identical ceramic dish.
All waiting to layer together.
January 21 - Indulging
Bright green, Sicilian, un-pitted olives; a slice of off-white ricotta cheese, fresh, soft and loose; slices of bocconcini oozing milky salt paired with bright red grape tomatoes sliced length ways drizzled in olive oil and sprinkled with salt; chunks of octopus with bruised rings dotted with red chili; rustic bread sliced; golden white wine, its coldness condensing on the glass. Indulging favourites.
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The Park - Sidney Myer Music Bowl park, Melbourne, Australia |
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The Devonshire Tea, Sassafras Cafe, Sassafras, Victoria, Australia |