Alison Cassidy - Silent Commuters

Walking the dog
through autumn's first mist
I noticed
five strangers
at the bus stop

A young female
in school uniform
awkwardly
studying her shoes

Three skinny youths
staring purposefully
and separately
straight ahead

And an elderly man
bespectacled and brief-cased
peering myopically up the road

As I passed this group of silent commuters
five pairs of eyes averted their gaze

And without warning
a local kookaburra
laughed uproariously...

Alison Cassidy

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