The Australian Anthropo-seen
Michael J. Leach
This poem has been previously published in the City of Greater Bendigo’s What I Did Last Week: Online Exhibition Week 26 as well as Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures (Litoria Press, 2021).
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Footsteps of giant creatures cross the ancient mud A thousand paw prints caught in pitted sandstone run along the shore, fill as rock pools at high tide The Goolarabaroo sing the trail of a Marrala Man A great emu races by, shedding feathers from his…
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In my mind’s eye I saw Mother observing a metamorphosis: jaw clenched; eyes widened and holding utterly still, forgetting to blink. Her nostrils flared and she brought her face down, close to the creature’s emergent head. The sphinx moth’s upper abdomen…
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