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In summer we all burn

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December 12, 2011
In summer we all burn by ~Limbs-of-Osiris
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The summer is coming,
I hear the beach roaring from here,
can see shirts hung over shoulders,
sunglasses, arms round waists,
can feel the earth's purrs,
breaking hibernation,
pollens tossed up at us in fanfare.

Ants are walking over me
because we're sharing a tree together.
Back to back, we're trying to
make our winter's pallour a warmer shade.
Is it some sort of personal sign
when you let your shoe-tongues fill with tan bark,
when it's driven you mad your whole life?
Or when you eat ice-cream in public (the sticky
fingers a mere afterthought)?

These trees though, they're not changing.
I can't help thinking they're
often doing better than we are.
Summer is coming; they sit still and burn.
Some go out with a bang!
Others fall to dust.
But us, we fuss and flail.
Still we burn.

But hey!
Summer is for beaches and getting laid.
Summer is for stretching,
for sticking your proboscis into
the rivers and guzzling.

No, I can't help thinking about
the skeletons at the waterholes in the Mallee.
I can't help smelling the death in the Wimmera.
Did they forget the roadblocks?
The police tape?
Black Spur charred black?
The ashtray fields,
gutless ribs of cars left abandoned in disgust?

Sometimes I think these trees are doing better than us.
RIP bushfire victims of Black Saturday.
© 2011 - 2024 Limbs-of-Osiris
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dragonflame15's avatar
beautiful...and i agree...RIP.