In Celebration

  A Song Of Rain: C J Dennis


     Patter, patter ... Boolcoomatta*,
     Adelaide and Oodnadatta,
     Pepegoona, parched and dry
     Laugh beneath a dripping sky.
     Riverina's thirsting plain
     Knows the benison of rain.
     Ararat and Arkaroola
     Render thanks with Tantanoola
     For the blessings they are gaining,
     And it's raining -- raining -- raining!





It didn't just rain. It fell out of the sky as if we had walked through the door with the bucket
balanced over it.

Dust washed off cars.

Torrents swirling down the gutters.

Piles of leaves, foam and rubbish near the storm water grates.

It is raining - raining - raining.


*btw: some of my very good friends used to own the station (ranch) at Boolcoomatta.
Three years ago they gave up on hoping that the rains would ever come back and moved
to the city.