Like swarming insects we descend upon the park – teeming pre-pubescents settling upon the playground, denying toddlers and astonished mothers the ritual solitude of their daily excursion.
Still more flutter out across the lawns, boys stripping the branches bare; throwing acorns and poking each other with sticks, as girls skip down the hills in spontaneous choreography causing all to scatter in their wake, while we, the teachers, try to cautiously channel this wild, force of nature, blustering and ordering, but never in control; Till at last, the weather turns and the rain intervenes, and we thank God for his assistance.
Darren Stein was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1973, but immigrated to Australia in 1996. He teaches History and Comparative Religion at a college on Sydney’s North Shore. He has published a number of artistic and written works including his own anthology of poetry, Storage Space: A collection of Contemporary Poetry (2009).
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