Translations from the Natural World by Les Murray

Author:Les Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781466894839
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

THE MASSES

The masses encroach on all of bare, and grow

down every side of earth, and into shadow.

To fit more bodies, we sprout in two dimensions.

The rest of air-life is islanded in our extensions.

We thicken by upper grazing, fatten palely under dung,

we burn to spring innumerable—only water is so sprung.

Blindly we invented space from denial of height

and colonisation was the true mass movement.

Massing held water. We calmed cataclysm to green.

Short rebound of raindrops, we make of our deaths a sun screen,

of our sex we make darts, glue, drunken cities. Tied in fasces,

dead, living, still we rule. No god is bowed to like grass is.

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