As a child I used to visit cousins in Naranderra, then a far-away place of dirt roads, bare-footed kids and swimming in the Murrumbidgee River, which floods regularly and spectacularly.
One of the abiding memories of those visits was swimming in a smaller tributary of the river, looking up and seeing the bones of cattle still lodged high in the gum trees that bordered the river, a legacy of recent floods and an indicator of just how high the floodwaters could rise in a short time.
Made for http://www.naviarrecords.com/2017/08/02/naviarhaiku187-flood-waters-recede/
