by Alex Robertson

Gentle slopes in ferrous tints
Grid-shaped streets inclined
Broughton River
close to Kaurna edges
Clan found before & after
lands cleared
Needs for wheat and sheep
Production for the region
and beyond

Blacksmithing business set up
Fencing & (mettle) supplies here
Major employer decades in
Prosperity in farming practice
rustic touches as modernity
Lasting more than 100 years

Eureka Hotel hugs the banks
Town museum in stone surrounds
Set back from a major highway
Reduced interest in shops
like teenagers migrating
To bigger & better opportunities

Google Earth shows limitations
Peeling paint & empty buildings
Undoing the industriousness
A valid postcode to revamp
If folk, craft, & desire are there…