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and then they come here and empty out into the town.
roll up the peels and the pods and the shells and the rinds and the cold teabags
so there’s space in your mind for the flying cries of schoolyard kids
along with the light and the air and the limestone breeze
and our fingers flick up the insults and epithets into dunes
then we stand for a while on the step and the sun shines through us
the air enters our bodies and the light of day which is brighter now
watch out for the ricochet when that big truck off the punt just now,
turning,
fat spat from a frying pan mirror-full of the fried egg sun
right in our eye from the blue sky which is in our bodies
over the slow wide and empty grey slide of the river
with the sun in our eyes laughing we call hallo to each other
and with voices like the flow of galah over the galvanised
and we’re ready cathedrals every day for the trucks and birds
through the cream and grey and lavender parchment of her bark,
and layering their implications in the chasms of her burnt and crusted bole,
and the crowding leaves covered the nest from the sky.
i am repulsed.
and loves.
we push our bellies out as far as out can be against you, crows,
whistles loudly,
the two fat girls serve truckies off my punt pies and cokes
in my church hall
in my deep-rivered song
its consequence,
packed with the leaves of the rich full trees of life deep under,
the purring, plundering suck of its ebb back over the punt
cradling each one its own big bang in its carefully carrying hands,
when our ancient chemicals’ lusts have been cherished and gratified