This motel room is neither here nor there
I’m halfway
And another day to go
Thoughts occur half way
And even though the pause is inevitable
I half wish I’d driven all the way through
I spent an hour in the dark
Before the sun
Wondering if I was enough
The thoughts drove me up
Out of bed
And into the morning
to walk along a strangers street
In a town that is half way there
And so far from anywhere
That it is often a travellers denoted
half way
And I wandered along with a half way point tumbling around my mind
And then an ordinary bird
On an ordinary building
that had stood for 100 years
sang It’s ordinary morning song
And I laughed that I had doubted myself
Yet again
I realised I don’t matter to anything at all
It just all matters to me
And that’s the difference
Between
Header: old house from my morning walk in Blackall this morning.
For this trip I’ve challenged myself to use monochrome only images. So of course the first thing I did was bump into a man who showed me a gallery of gorgeous dresses made out of the most amazing fibres and colours. But that’s another post.
This is Blackall at 6am with the sun still rising and me with a tourist map particularly interested in number 4 and letter Q which were at opposite ends of the town.
More on Instagram on the Kate.gwp account – I will do something different for the other account when I have the chance to edit on my laptop
I was from a sheep station and when I first met my father in law he quizzed me on Jackie Howe – I had heard of him but couldn’t recite how many sheep Jackie shore – now I can – 321 sheep in 7hrs and 41 minutes. Well deserved honours to a hard working and skilled man!
And now I’m here in Winton and nervous about the meet and greet for authors this afternoon. I don’t call myself an author and yet here we are . I think I will feel more like an author once I publish my first novel later this year, I don’t feel like poetry counts for me at least – but feel free to tell me I’m wrong.
Here’s to meeting and writing fellow writers and readers and a few days living in an iconic outback town. This is going to be fun!
Cheers
