Thoughts of Anna Creek

THOUGHTS OF ANNA CREEK


In days when the biggest landholding
in the world: Anna Creek Cattle station
is up for sale and Nicole Kidman pictured again
In some play acted role of image in fantasyland

My thoughts go to dry cuttings of Anna Creek banks
Which was for a week playing place for our children
below the famous run and homestead where Sir Sidney Kidman
centred his outback South Australian hopes and plans.

But is she, was that ephemeral king in his grass castles
any more or less rich for the outworking of their dreams;
than our kids were in their production of Anna Creek sand castles
In set-built roads and towns, imagining lives on terraced walls?

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-July 2015 after June 1995, and our camp a mile of so from the Anna Creek Station Homestead, below the Anna Creek Crossing on the Coober Pedy Track, near William Creek, SA