Queensland Winter


On a Queensland Winter's Night

(in an old wooden house without heating)

Strip.  Turn on hot water in shower.  Too hot?  Too cold?  Just right.

Under the water.  Water pummelling on back and on front.  Heaven.

Four minutes be damned.

Hot tingling skin.  Out.

A cold front hits me.  Quick.  Grab that towel.

More stimulation as shivering, I rub all over; a Finn rolling in the snow after a sauna.

Track suit jarmies.  Into bed, under the cool cotton sheets, under the doona, under the alpaca blanket.

Stretch out and feel the confrontation of cold meeting warmth;  the best part of a cold winter's night in Brisbane.

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