homo sapiens, Sarcophilus harrisii, Zosterops lateralis
among our hills
girls test tumorous devils
their dreads their PhDs their
soothing chat while they
weigh, measure, take
blood, mucus, hair, check
tags
satellite data
then release them from the hessian
bags they’d calmed them in
video
the hesitancy (sniff the air)
then the speed
with which they disappear
when the girls go
they call down to the house
adios
and
they’re replaced by
shadows
the old people
saunter back, the blank bush
flickers
to life
and the past drops
dizzy at our feet a ten gram
silvereye that’s just flown
1600 k
returning south from Queensland
hola little dude
just as pretty
as last year
you’ve survived for now
the point three quadrillion dollar
debt pump that keeps us
humans going at your expense
unlike us
you’re still wholly
here
now while
we owe the world
and the world owns us