Fragments of Garden Island, WA, as it was A disturbed penguin Waddles out of the bottle-dump And swears at us. Snakes flee in the acacia, tamar wallabies stare, Sea-weed bank at night: A stacked city of glow-worms Invisible by day. Oyster-catchers in black and scarlet drift the beach. A willy-wagtail’s nest A hand’s breadth past my window Wafer with tiny eggs. So near the refinery, the port, the plying ships. The hot springs bubble Hardly known, hidden deep away In thorny castor-oil bushes. Hal G.P. Colebatch Carnac Island There…
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