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Me? I think I’m year of the water horse.
So, this August I turn 144.

Have you ever watched the brumbies streak across the scarlet sand? 
Me neither. But their hooves pound with their hearts, the sun beats down
On silken rumps and on jostling manes that flicker like flames. They dart wherever they go; out of fear or love for life – do you know?

Yes, the element of water, they say, is fickle. Its reflex is to mould itself
To the shape of its container. Lacking vigour, missing structure,
Dreary, adapting, born free-falling. This says: "Those born under water
Possess 'Inner Stillness'."
Water running from itself for miles down 
Pipes and the Murray River;
Muddy, clouded, day and night. 
I wish my 'Inner Stillness' would transcend 
To the outer. To be swathed by stillness
In that darling Basin… 
When does this river meet the sea?