THIN TUFTS
Bunched grey flames
Of dry grass yet to be
Fired in a candle plume
Risen in memory of rain
This detached vegetation
Flickers in a sand wind
Alight with antiquity
That awaits its burn.
* * *
- 1995 between Lake Cadibarrawirracanna and
the Dog Fence, off the William Creek-Coober Pedy Road
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