By Cameron Scott
Score: Wyoming (Elijah Fox)
Rainfall has always been a time of reflection
The crushing force of specks of water
Trees begin to chatter when the rain falls
Dancing beneath the mewling sky
The first peoples of this land saw the rainfall
I wonder if they sat and watched the trees
Eavesdropped on the birds debating in the canopy
The mist kisses every leaf
Cuddling the branches from behind
An old married couple plastering the grey sky with their affection
Their children squawking in their arms
It’s been their routine for millions of years
Fog dreams over the evergreens
Bundling me away to a Czech forest I saw in a memory
Where the rain pelted my pale skin
Bit at my pores
Currents wheeled and spun against our raft
Shielding us from the stones, not yet smoothed by time
Fantasy painted the sky
The trees carpeted my view
Nourishing green, cotton fog
A picture book stamped in my memory
A fairy tale caressing my irises
I’m so far away now
Yet I can look up into the milk white sky
And remember the beauty of my Czech forest
While I wait, sheltered and dry, for the rain to subside
Droplets melting the memories in my mind
Artist Bio:
Cameron Scott is Matilda-nominated actor, writer, and stage manager hailing from the mountains of North Brisbane. As an actor he is currently training in his 3rd year of QUT’s BFA (Acting) having previously trained in NIDA’s Open program. He has performed in Crow’s Nest (The Velvet Collective + Travelling Rose Theatre), Platform (QUT Acting) and How To Vote (Underground Theatre Company) throughout his studies, and is the current treasurer of Underground Theatre. He has recently decided this wasn’t nearly enough, and has joined ScratchThat to develop his writing and poetry as well.