Wednesday, 8 February, 2012
Quadrant Online

December 2009

Volume LIII Number 12

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Poetry

Sighting

Andrew Lansdown

 

On visiting the Bull Ranges with a traditional landowner


Pluck out the detecting eye,
break off the pointing finger,
shut up the exclaiming cry—
if only somehow I could!

 
But it’s too late to stifle
myself now or stop my friend,
who snatches up his rifle
and follows swiftly after


the wallabies I sighted,
the small wild rock wallabies
whose survival I blighted
simply because I saw them


and cried aloud, delighted.

 


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