Poem Category: Australian

Separated …
a cave bat hangs itself
from the fig tree.

Sprouting
seeds from fruit bats
the cave’s mouth.

Starless river
seeking landfall
its eucalypt seeds.

Family album
the child points
some forgotten ones out.

Crickets
under the floor boards
forgetting sleep.

Chiming faintly
of bamboo
the forest breeze.

Scent of a storm
the caw of a crow
leaving the tree.

Flood recedes
a patch of sunlight
wrinkled in mud.

In and out
of the foster child
the family’s name.

Migrating geese
the marshlands and summer
rowdy once more.