#1136 - koalas

 

1136

10.ii.23

4.41

koalas

 

it is a kind of prayer

their sleep

in crook or cleft

by leaflight

 

paws

a kind of curling

leave prints behind

and climb

each on another’s back

 

colour of ash and tail vestigial

 

once were wagon-loaded for pelt

now it’s clearing for suburb

 

less and less the range

but they believe in leaf and dream

 

alone commune

so transient asocial

may grumble stutter like a motor

that’s a headsup too

little sniff to finish

it’s with little brain

 

a prayer the world may shrink no further

that trees might stand out of the fire

that their ways be unmonstered

a prayer that there may be peace