Stillness, quiet
the smell of dust in the air.
Cold clear nights, cold noses
under a million stars.
Dry grass, cracked earth
the ground peppered with quartz.
Striped gums, yellow gums
pepper trees laden with pink corns.
Kangaroos alert, feeding
mobs of bounding roos.
Galahs grazing, chattering
flocks wheeling overhead.
Gumnuts, slivers of bark
a carpet of dry leaves.
Stillness, quiet
in the tall spindly, silent grey bush.
– © Lindsey Wood, ifh2015
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