busking on the bridge at Footscray Station
The wind rhymes with the sound of their pants
brushing against their legs. The music must shift
to a higher register, whenever the diesel trains roar.
And my free-to-anyone miniature chapbooks of poetry
and flute perhaps alter by one second a peak-hour’s beat.
I’ll try to hit the bum notes with the same amount of pleasure
as the perfectly played ones. Hit a fast trill when the coins land.
The most regular givers are the more recently arrived immigrants.
So I wonder, as I play my flute, about other people who are playing
instruments with bare feet on dirt streets for different sounding lands.
with a cloud to guide each note
with a train track in my throat
About Peter Davis
Peter Davis works as a bus driver. He has a 7 year old son. Peter has produced seven documentaries for ABC Radio National. Some of these programs have been broadcast on satellite in Europe. Peter freelance writes for newspapers sometimes, including six feature length past articles for The Age. Other occupations have included street busker, market hand, disabled care attendant and labourer. He is publishing his first book of poetry Cravings for a Spectacular Sun in 2009. Peter can be contacted at wordsonthewire@gmail.com
