Thursday 21 April 2016

Call of the Torquatus




CALL OF THE TORQUATUS


An anonyous pedestrian
Of the most tortuous of roads
The roads that are not! is our
The Pedionomus torquatus
With night calls like a snoring ghost.

Our Australian Plains-wanderer
That is a wide plains region's totem bird goads
Those who dwell there with ears for the plain
With the call of its regular haunting absence
Its vast unseenness by all of us.

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