Spinifex or Porcupine Grass

SPINIFEX OR PORCUPINE GRASS


Spinifex, or Porcupine Grass covers
about twenty three per cent of the vast Australian
continent; Worse luck, the spine-goaded think
‘No! Luckily,’ the desert environmentalist says ‘
for otherwise much of it would be nude as the Sahara.’


As if because the wide sand is so soft
As if because its sand bed is too comforting
As if because the sand was so at its ease
The Gardener planted Spiny Spinifex Grass in it
Like Sword-armed Fiery Angels at Eden’s Gates.