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Rated: · Poetry · Nature · #1892468

Three haiku about our old forests and ongoing controversy. Note 'ten eighty' is a poison.


dusky scrub tit
fear-driven from her nest
dozer crushes all

ten eighty carcase
hungry Tassie devil
feeds, convulses, dies

log trucks thunder
past colonial buildings
old foundations crack

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