#41 - can country understand us?

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10.2.20

can country understand us?

we, from so far away

and strangely

jacaranda finds a season

imported from

the one world spun

who picks up the pieces?

will history know?

how nest feathered

soiled

caught corner of an eye

tip toes

traceless

as the all-before

and I, as lost

how strangely here

as if imagined

as if and so because

the palimp-sinking’s settled

my dispossessing’s done for me

up frangipani, bamboo

cheese trees take your time

be water gum, button wood, pencil cedar

names will never stick

little pumpkins on a stem

big ones in patch are thirsty

note creek cabbages its palms

fences and paddocks

for dinner moo

and whom we love

all here for what the weather proves

ask not what you can do

but how to listen

come quite still

who calls weed?

I won’t