Waiting for the Past by Les Murray

Author:Les Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780374714734
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Bird Signatures

Tiny spinnakers

of blue wrens wag among waves

of uncut lawn grass

O

Dapper lyre bird:

wonder what he’s typing there

below the study

O

A shrike thrush whistling

so piercingly it unseats the

ballast of our mind

O

Old river port, flooded

to mush, with bottles pacing

in it as avocets

O

Wood sawn by Nippon,

Oz nail pulled out for a cry:

the Nankeen night heron

Last World Before the Stars

These days that we’re apart

are like standing on Pluto,

there in the no-time of thought,

bijou world the area of West Australia

contra-rotating farthest out

with its three moons and little mountains,

looking off the short horizon,

the Sun a white daystar of squinch

glazing the ground like frozen twilight,

no life, no company, no nearness,

never a memory or a joke,

no pinned placket of dearness

just months gone in afternoon sleep

and cripple-hikes with beeping monitors.

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