Maid of Melbourne

I fell into conversation with a young woman from Melbourne, the two of us seated on the steps of a church in Wexford Town, in the southeast of Ireland. She wanted to know if it was “always overcast here”. I recall I wasn’t thinking so much of the weather at the time.

Maid of Melbourne I

The Maid of Melbourne

Product of Friendly Skies

Judged ours to Glower

Therefore people Dour?

But I - poor Host -

Was already lost

-Those eyes!

Maid of Melbourne II

A simple question from

The Maid of Melbourne

She - reared in such Sunny climes

Understood not

The romance of Dark, Dour days.

Perhaps she saw

      - that there was no Romance

      just -

Darkness

© Copyright 2007 by Kevin J Mackey