Journalist Stan Grant has written about the significance of the name and I wondered if the image of a poisoned waterhole would open up other interpretations of how humans treat their environment.
When I settled on using this poem, I decided to employ a technique promoted by my sometime collaborator Garlo Jo.
He's been encouraging musicians to record the wind playing their instruments on the Vent de Guitares website, which now links to the video below.
Below are the contributed recordings responding to this haiku.
