Coming Rain by Stephen Daisley

Author:Stephen Daisley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2015-03-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 29

The work went on. Dust rising up and blowing into the shed and the heat of the sun on the corrugated-iron roof come radiating inside. If you looked outside to the north the world was divided into two slabs of colour. Red and blue. The land and the sky. No clouds. No rain. Red land and blue sky.

Sweat arrived in veins, river-lines from the two shearers’ ever-moving forearms and backs and shoulders. Strong necks and set jaws, blinking eyes and bodies never stopping. They were soaked with sweat, dripping.

Long white cobwebs blowing back and forth in the dark wooden rafters of the woolshed. You don’t stop. No matter what, you don’t stop working here.

Forever enclosed by tracks on the corrugated-iron walls, the black stencilled letters and names, spoor of other gangs, other pressers who had worked here. Their passing marks, like pissing on a tree. Station and farm names: Jindy Stn 1935 F/W 1200. R Horrocks Bellys & Pieces; I shore 250 Tobruk; 60 bales of Glenburgh wool 1939; Jack Sorensen shore here. Wawoon and Gungurra. Carrington Homestead here. 79 H GRDC 2860. Spion Kop, JJS 300 strg wool lmb. Bimbjy Stn.

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