Brisbane Botanical Gardens is located right off the CBD on the Brisbane River. Lots of people just hang out and enjoy the fine winter day.
In the center of the park is a large fountain that was constructed in 1867 to provide the “first pure water for the visitors to the botanical garden.”
The steps are worn, straight lines into arcs, by years of large and small feet, white and brown, seeking refreshment from the towering fountain. Does it whisper of segregation? It is silent for now no waters flow.
Sea Calm
How still
How strangely still
The water is today
It is not good
For water
To be still that way.
-Langston Hughes 1902-1967
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