Prism in my kitchen splitting light
Bright sunshine on the hills
Jacaranda blending into the late afternoon sky
Terrible howling in the gully
No child this
Young woman crying over her horse
Jagged words run together
JillybloodonherfacedeadyesI'msurealreadybloated
Bulldozer edges over sodden ground
Sudden tilt on the dam wall then a slide to the edge
Ten minutes and the burial is done
Angry boy kicking grass in bare feet
"I'm gonna leave this godforsaken fucking place."
All I can think, "Didn't your mum tell you to wear shoes in the long grass?"
Looking over the lush hills I count
Tiny guinea pig mound here
Horse here
Cow beneath that tree
Another horse there
Crows picking over the newly turned earth
Now I know why the back paddock is so green
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