chant de Tasmanie

into

a song field

with many solutions

your mouth

opens

 

your sisters

slap water

on the off beat

apprising

the light

 

their bare feet

beat

over oyster beds

or push through cutting grass

into uplands

 

where cloudlines dream

on the haze of

mauve mountains

oceans desire

to lap over them

 

hoons in the valleys

rejoice

their flatulent V8s

boast

of angst and a past

 

the felt

tips of evening

finger the family the

notes

in their heads

 

I have not heard

or truly seen

the silver wattles

their generous

drifts

 

or wallabies in the night wind

dim among stars

only ours

for the naming